[Resending to post to list; sorry to muffetta for the extra copy] On 07 Jan, 2008, at 7:48, muffetta66 wrote:
ibook-g4-di-*************-********:~ *************$ sudo port install mc Password: ---> Extracting libiconv Error: Target org.macports.extract returned: shell command " cd "/ opt/local/var/macports/build/ _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync .macports.org_release_ports_textproc_libiconv/work" && gzip -dc /opt/ local/var/macports/distfiles/libiconv/libiconv-1.12.tar.gz | -xf - " returned error 127 Command output: sh: line 1: -xf: command not found
Looks like you have `tar` missing. What's the value of tar_command on your system? You can get it as follows: % cat /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/port1.0/port_autoconf.tcl | grep tar variable tar_command "/usr/bin/gnutar --no-same-owner" I'm assuming that the value will be missing on your system. As you can see, on my system it refers to /usr/bin/gnutar: % /usr/bin/gnutar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1 It's possible that you could fix your problem simply by editing port_autoconf.tcl, but that would break upon selfupdating, and it would be better to know why it didn't originally find the tar command. Chris