Dear list, I have tried to make a port for docbook2X (translator from docbook to man). The portfile is very simple: PortSystem 1.0 name docbook2X version 0.8.7 categories textproc maintainers ehainry@free.fr description Converts DocBook/XML documents into man pages and TeXinfo long_description \ Converts DocBook/XML documents into man pages and TeXinfo homepage http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net/ platforms darwin master_sites sourceforge:docbook2x checksums md5 bef029e10d29b182a7a782b483db1b36 depends_lib port:p5-xml-sax But when I try port -t configure, it stops with many errors concerning rights for gnutar. without -t, it works like a charm. port -t build also breaks with a lot of errors I do not understand. Without -t, once more, everything builds OK. I do not understand what went wrong (especially during configure...). Emmanuel