It seems that xfig crashes with macports now.  I don't know if its the new beta version (3.2.5-alpha5) or if its something with macports, because it worked fine with darwin.  Basically what happens is that if you to click on the 'File','Edit','View','Snap', or 'Help' tabs it pulls down a blank list and then crashes with this message in the portal:

color = '#ffcccc'

xfig3.2.5: SIGBUS signal trapped
xfig: figure empty or not modified - exiting
Abort trap

  - Sebastian