There is an issue filed about problems installing abiword-x11 on Leopard (I assumed you're on Leopard since your output mentioned "i686-apple-darwin9-g++-4.0.1" and Leopard is Darwin 9):
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/13214
Not sure if that's the same issue you're experiencing.
That is the same trouble I am having with abiword-x11.
After that I tried installing the other abiword package, version 2.4.5_0 and it says it installed. The problem I am having now is I can not start the program. When I open a xterm window and type abiword I get the error message: bash: abiword: command not found. Am I doing anything wrong? Help help would be looked upon kindly with any version of abiword.
Try typing the full path to the executable, presumably /opt/local/bin/abiword. Your xterm may not be using the same PATH as your Mac OS X Terminal.
I typed /opt/local/bin/abiword and got the return of bash: /opt/local/bin/abiword: No such file or directory. This happened both in xterm and in the Terminal. Mike -- Michael J. Vollinger Research Assistant Ronald B. Gilmore XRF Lab Dept. of Geosciences 611 North Pleasant Street University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003