#16610: Configure failure --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Reporter: wkanoff@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: Normal | Milestone: MacPorts Future Component: base | Version: 1.6.0 Resolution: worksforme | Keywords: Port: | --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Comment(by yasir.suhail@…): I have the same problem, I am running Tiger 10.4, and have XCode 2.5 echo $PATH gives /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin/:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin/:/sw/bin/:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin /powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/Applications/MATLAB/bin which sed gives: /usr/bin/sed I can run cat, sed and other commands from my terminal window. I am not sure what's going on. While trying to install a port, I get ---> Computing dependencies for zlib ---> Configuring zlib Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_archivers_zlib/work/zlib-1.2.3" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --shared " returned error 127 Command output: ./configure: line 1: sed: command not found ./configure: line 1: sed: command not found ./configure: line 1: sed: command not found ./configure: line 1: sed: command not found ./configure: line 62: cat: command not found Checking for shared library support... No shared library support; try without defining CC and CFLAGS Building static library libz.a version with /usr/bin/gcc-4.0. ./configure: line 195: cat: command not found ./configure: line 200: sed: command not found Checking for unistd.h... Yes. ./configure: line 207: cat: command not found Checking whether to use vs[n]printf() or s[n]printf()... using vs[n]printf() ./configure: line 225: cat: command not found Checking for vsnprintf() in stdio.h... No. WARNING: vsnprintf() not found, falling back to vsprintf(). zlib can build but will be open to possible buffer-overflow security vulnerabilities. ./configure: line 287: cat: command not found Checking for return value of vsprintf()... Yes. ./configure: line 402: cat: command not found Checking for errno.h... Yes. ./configure: line 413: cat: command not found Checking for mmap support... Yes. ./configure: line 439: rm: command not found ./configure: line 442: sed: command not found Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1 Error: Unable to execute port: upgrade zlib failed -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16610#comment:9> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS