On Dec 21, 2007, at 15:54, jwegelin wrote:

Dear Macports Users:

I am attempting to install MacPorts or DarwinPorts. When I follow the directions at http://darwinports.com/download/ (after typing in my email address), an error says "no acceptable C compiler."

The web site darwinports.com is not affiliated with the DarwinPorts/ MacPorts project. Please do not refer to that site for any information. It is a rogue web site not under our control and we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information they provide. The web site for this project is http://www.macports.org/ . Installation instructions are here: http://guide.macports.org/#installing

My MacBook Pro was purchased circa July 2007 and runs Mac OS 10.4.11. Do I have to purchase a C compiler before I can install MacPorts or DarwinPorts? What C compiler should I purchase or download?

You need Apple Xcode, which is free. For Mac OS X 10.4, the correct version of Xcode is 2.5. You can download it from http:// developer.apple.com/ . You need an Apple Developer Connection membership, but you can get a basic membership for free. An older version of Xcode may have been included on the DVD that came with your computer, but using older versions of Xcode is not recommended.

Details:

I downloaded DarwinPorts-1.5.0-10.4.dmg and doubleclicked it. This brought up a dialog box which said it was installing MacPorts. After several minutes the dialog box said it was finished.

Then, following instructions at

http://darwinports.com/download/?email=jwegelin%40vcu.edu&x=53&y=12

I typed

sudo port -d selfupdate

which resulted in a lot of text scrolling past, ending with the folowing error message:

configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details.

while executing "macports::selfupdate [array get global_options]" Error: /opt/local/bin/port: selfupdate failed: Error installing new MacPorts base: shell command "cd /opt/local/var/macports/sources/ rsync.macports.org/release/base && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-install-user=root --with-install-group=admin --with- tclpackage=/Library/Tcl && make && make install" returned error 1 Command output: checking build system type... i686-apple-darwin8.11.1 checking host system type... i686-apple-darwin8.11.1 checking target system type... i686-apple-darwin8.11.1 checking for sw_vers... sw_vers checking Mac OS X version... 10.4.11 checking MacPorts version... 1.6.0 checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl.exe... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details.

Inicidentally, the only reason I am trying to install this, is so that I might install pine or alpine (email client) on my Mac. Would MacPorts or DarwinPorts be an easy way to get pine (or preferably alpine) installed properly on my Mac?

You can search for ports on the command line using "port search pine" or on our web site: http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=pine We seem to have a port for pine, but not alpine. A port can be added for alpine if that would be useful.

Also, is MacPorts the same as DarwinPorts? The file I downloaded was called DarwinPorts, but after I doublelicked it, the name MacPorts started coming up.

MacPorts is the name of the project. It used to be called DarwinPorts, but due in part to the rogue darwinports.com web site and the fact that we want to target Mac OS X specifically, and no longer Darwin OS, the project's name was changed.