On Sep 24, 2006, at 6:25 AM, Dan Finkle wrote:

Error I get when running su port –v selfupdate:

This is what I see when using the command.

Thanks so much for your help, if you think it’s 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.


I would be inclined to reinstall the whole ports system. if you don't have any ports installed, you could just wipe out /opt and start over. 

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