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On Nov 25, 2007, at 14:09, Jesse Ohlsson wrote:

I am running MacPorts 1.520 on a PowerPC G5 under Mac OS X 10.5.1.

It appears that whatever script is extracting the expat package (whatever that is!), or the fping package for that matter, is missing the "tar" command, but has the switches intended to follow it.

Thanks for the quick response, I hope this is something we can find the solution for...

Did you build MacPorts from source or install it from a disk image? (Which disk image?)

Do you have anything installed in /usr/local? Do you have Fink installed in /sw? Both of those could conflict with MacPorts in weird and exciting ways.

The expat port doesn't say anything about the tar command. That's a global MacPorts extraction mechanism, so I would expect all ports to be equally broken for you at this point. The relevant code, I think, from portextract.tcl:

default extract.post_args {"| ${portutil::autoconf::tar_command} -xf -"}

So ${portutil::autoconf::tar_command} is empty for you. I don't know why yet.

On Nov 25, 2007, at 7:48 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

On Nov 25, 2007, at 12:12, Jesse Ohlsson wrote:

I installed the Xcode and X11, then the latest MacPorts and successfully updated it as well.  I am ultimately trying to get wireshark running.  This is the failure message I get:

[g5:~] jess% sudo port install wireshark

--->  Extracting expat

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_expat/work" && gzip -dc /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/expat/expat-2.0.1.tar.gz | -xf - " returned error 127

Command output: sh: -xf: command not found

gzip: stdout: Broken pipe

Error: The following dependencies failed to build: glib2 gettext expat libiconv pkgconfig gtk2 atk cairo fontconfig freetype zlib libpng render xrender jpeg pango Xft2 xorg-xproto xorg-util-macros tiff libpcap openssl

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

I tried installing port fping and got the same error.

Is this a simple fix?  Has anyone else seen this?  I'd sure appreciate any help.

Haven't seen this problem before. That's supposed to be a tar command the output of gzip is being piped to.

Exactly what version of MacPorts do you have? What version of Xcode? What version of Mac OS X? What kind of Mac (Intel or PowerPC)?