I'm new to Macports and tried to install gimp. It failed allready at glib2 installation due to error involving libiconv. Machine is iMac G5, OSX 10.4.10, Xcode 2.4.1, macports updated and libiconv @1.11_6 +darwin_8. here the error message: ************************* ---> Fetching glib2 ---> Verifying checksum(s) for glib2 ---> Extracting glib2 ---> Applying patches to glib2 ---> Configuring glib2 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_devel_g lib2/work/glib-2.14.1" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --mandir=/ opt/local/share/man " returned error 1 Command output: checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E yes checking whether to enable garbage collector friendliness... no checking whether to disable memory pools... no checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking for c++... c++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether c++ accepts -g... yes checking dependency style of c++... gcc3 checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... no checking for _LARGE_FILES value needed for large files... no checking for pkg-config... /opt/local/bin/pkg-config checking for gawk... (cached) awk checking for perl5... no checking for perl... perl checking for indent... indent checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for iconv_open... no checking for libiconv_open in -liconv... no checking for iconv_open in -liconv... no configure: error: *** No iconv() implementation found in C library or libiconv ************************ and extract with additional related info from config log file: ************************ configure:7175: checking for iconv_open configure:7231: gcc -o conftest -O2 -funroll-loops -fstrict-aliasing - I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib -bind_at_load -framework Carbon conftest.c >&5 ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 635 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 643 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 651 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 659 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 683 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 691 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 699 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 707 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 723 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 731 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 763 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 779 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 787 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 827 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 851 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 867 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 899 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 939 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 955 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 963 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 971 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 987 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 995 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 1011 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 1019 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 1043 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 1067 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 1099 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 1107 past the end of the symbol table ld: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/ Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib isym field of reference table entry 1115 past the end of the symbol table ld: warning prebinding disabled because dependent library: /System/ Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ vecLib.framework/Versions/A/vecLib can't be searched configure:7237: $? = 1 *************************** thanks a lot for any help! Andy