#35580: Lion selfupdate fails ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Reporter: justindesantis@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.1.1 Keywords: Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new MacPorts base: command execution failed | Port: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Hi folks, on a different machine from my last ticket I'm getting the following error when running a selfupdate. Here is the debug output. {{{ justin$ sudo port -d selfupdate DEBUG: Copying /Users/justin/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dt.Xcode.plist to /opt/local/var/macports/home/Library/Preferences DEBUG: MacPorts sources location: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs ---> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync receiving file list ... done sent 36 bytes received 69 bytes 70.00 bytes/sec total size is 3543040 speedup is 33743.24 receiving file list ... done sent 36 bytes received 76 bytes 74.67 bytes/sec total size is 512 speedup is 4.57 DEBUG: successful verification with key /opt/local/share/macports /macports-pubkey.pem DEBUG: /usr/bin/tar -C /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/tmp -xf /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base.tar MacPorts base version 2.1.1 installed, DEBUG: Rebuilding and reinstalling MacPorts if needed MacPorts base version 2.1.2 downloaded. ---> Updating the ports tree Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ DEBUG: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after '--exclude=/PortIndex*' rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports receiving file list ... done sent 53 bytes received 686050 bytes 196029.43 bytes/sec total size is 35916284 speedup is 52.35 DEBUG: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/PortIndex_darwin_11_i386/PortIndex /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports receiving file list ... done sent 36 bytes received 70 bytes 70.67 bytes/sec total size is 8683991 speedup is 81924.44 ---> MacPorts base is outdated, installing new version 2.1.2 DEBUG: Permissions OK Installing new MacPorts release in /opt/local as root:admin; permissions 0755; Tcl-Package in /Library/Tcl checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin11.4.0 checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin11.4.0 checking target system type... i386-apple-darwin11.4.0 checking MacPorts version... 2.1.2 checking for sw_vers... /usr/bin/sw_vers checking for defaults... /usr/bin/defaults checking for xcode-select... /usr/bin/xcode-select checking Mac OS X version... 10.7.4 checking Xcode location... /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer checking Xcode version... 4.4.1 checking for gcc... /usr/bin/cc checking whether the C compiler works... no configure: error: in `/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details Command failed: cd /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base && CC=/usr/bin/cc ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with- tclpackage=/Library/Tcl --with-install-user=root --with-install- group=admin --with-directory-mode=0755 --enable-readline && make && make install SELFUPDATING=1 Exit code: 77 DEBUG: Error installing new MacPorts base: command execution failed while executing "macports::selfupdate [array get global_options] base_updated" Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new MacPorts base: command execution failed downstairs-imac:~ justin$ }}} I saw a post on usenet (I'm old school) that I should completely remove Xcode and reinstall it. If that's the solution, how do I do that? -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/35580> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS