Makefile:103: *** Unsupported MAC OS X version. Stop. (BigSur 11.4)

[ilmoi]

I've tried running honggfuzz with both the original make that comes with OSX (3.81) and with one installed via homebrew (4.3) - in both cases I get this error:

❯ cargo hfuzz run try-hong
   Compiling honggfuzz v0.5.54
   Compiling arbitrary v1.0.1
   Compiling lazy_static v1.4.0
error: failed to run custom build command for `honggfuzz v0.5.54`

Caused by:
  process didn't exit successfully: `/Users/ilmoi/Downloads/try-hong/hfuzz_target/release/build/honggfuzz-f99475d7c12e0151/build-script-build` (exit code: 101)
  --- stdout
  make: Entering directory '/Users/ilmoi/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/honggfuzz-0.5.54/honggfuzz'
  make: Leaving directory '/Users/ilmoi/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/honggfuzz-0.5.54/honggfuzz'

  --- stderr
  Makefile:103: *** Unsupported MAC OS X version.  Stop.
  thread 'main' panicked at 'assertion failed: status.success()', /Users/ilmoi/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/honggfuzz-0.5.54/build.rs:41:5
  note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
error: build failed

The advice here didn't help and I'm not finding anything useful on google.

Is there anything else I can try and do?

I'm on Big Sur 11.4

[PaulGrandperrin]

The issue is that the upstream project honggfuzz hasn't been updated to work on the latest version of macOS.

See https://github.com/google/honggfuzz/issues/371

The error comes from this line: https://github.com/google/honggfuzz/blob/master/Makefile#L103

In the meantime, I would recommend you to use some Linux to do your fuzzing. Compatibility, features and support is almost always better for this kind of projects.

[ilmoi]

Understood. Thanks for commenting.

[JekaMas]

@PaulGrandperrin @ilmoi Just had the same issue with MacOs. I believe https://github.com/google/honggfuzz/issues/371 was closed successfully some time ago. However, mentioned lines in Makefile are still there...