Error I get when running su port v selfupdate: Paul, This is what I see when using the command. Thanks so much for your help, if you think it¹s something I should send out to the mailing list please let me know. Cheers, Dan Last login: Thu Sep 21 13:23:37 on console Welcome to Darwin! epixfiles:~ sysadmin$ sudo port -v selfupdate Password: Synchronizing from rsync://rsync.darwinports.org/dpupdate/dports receiving file list ... done wrote 101 bytes read 211859 bytes 28261.33 bytes/sec total size is 13401931 speedup is 63.23 DarwinPorts base version 1.310 installed receiving file list ... done ./ deleting config.log wrote 101 bytes read 4524 bytes 3083.33 bytes/sec total size is 2504037 speedup is 541.41 Downloaded DarwinPorts base version 1.320 Configuring, Building and Installing new DarwinPorts base checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0 checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0 checking target system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0 checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details. Error: /opt/local/bin/port: selfupdate failed: Error installing new DarwinPorts base: shell command "cd /opt/local/var/db/dports/sources/rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate1/base && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-install-user=root --with-install-group=admin --with-tclpackage=/Library/Tcl && make && make install" returned error 77 Command output: checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0 checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0 checking target system type... powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0 checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details.