hello, I tried installing gworkspace via macports on a G5 (10.4.8.) this ran initially smooth until the line ---> Configuring gnutls below is the `port -v' output which follows at that point: ====cut======= checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin8.8.0 checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin8.8.0 checking target system type... powerpc-apple-darwin8.8.0 checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... no checking for nawk... no checking for awk... awk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes configure: autobuild project... gnutls configure: autobuild revision... 1.4.1 configure: autobuild hostname... marco.fz-rossendorf.de configure: autobuild timestamp... 20070206-115657 checking whether in dmalloc mode... no checking whether in electric fence mode... no checking whether in developer mode... no checking whether in profile mode... no *** *** Checking for compilation programs... checking whether NLS is requested... yes checking for msgfmt... /opt/local/bin/msgfmt checking for gmsgfmt... /opt/local/bin/msgfmt checking for xgettext... /opt/local/bin/xgettext checking for msgmerge... /opt/local/bin/msgmerge checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 accepts -g... yes checking for /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking dependency style of /usr/bin/gcc-4.0... gcc3 checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... no checking for shared library run path origin... done checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... yes checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... yes checking whether NLS is requested... yes checking for GNU gettext in libc... no checking for iconv... yes checking how to link with libiconv... -liconv checking for GNU gettext in libintl... yes checking whether to use NLS... yes checking where the gettext function comes from... external libintl checking how to link with libintl... -lintl -liconv -lc -Wl,-framework -Wl,CoreFoundation checking for gcc... (cached) /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of /usr/bin/gcc-4.0... (cached) gcc3 checking whether ln -s works... yes *** *** Detecting compiler options... checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for inline... inline checking whether C99 macros are supported... yes checking if gcc supports -Wno-pointer-sign... yes checking whether we have GNU assembler... no *** *** Detecting C library capabilities... checking how to run the C preprocessor... /usr/bin/cpp-4.0 checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for strings.h... (cached) yes checking stddef.h usability... yes checking stddef.h presence... yes checking for stddef.h... yes checking alloca.h usability... yes checking alloca.h presence... yes checking for alloca.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... (cached) yes checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes checking sys/socket.h usability... yes checking sys/socket.h presence... yes checking for sys/socket.h... yes checking errno.h usability... yes checking errno.h presence... yes checking for errno.h... yes checking sys/time.h usability... yes checking sys/time.h presence... yes checking for sys/time.h... yes checking time.h usability... yes checking time.h presence... yes checking for time.h... yes checking math.h usability... yes checking math.h presence... yes checking for math.h... yes checking limits.h usability... yes checking limits.h presence... yes checking for limits.h... yes checking float.h usability... yes checking float.h presence... yes checking for float.h... yes checking stdarg.h usability... yes checking stdarg.h presence... yes checking for stdarg.h... yes checking ctype.h usability... yes checking ctype.h presence... yes checking for ctype.h... yes checking netdb.h usability... yes checking netdb.h presence... yes checking for netdb.h... yes checking for umask... yes checking for vasprintf... yes checking for isascii... yes checking for memmove... yes checking for memmem... no checking for mmap... yes checking for gmtime_r... yes checking for working alloca.h... yes checking for alloca... yes *** *** Detecting system's parameters... checking for unsigned long... yes checking size of unsigned long... 4 checking for unsigned int... yes checking size of unsigned int... 4 checking for uint... yes checking for ssize_t... yes checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... yes *** *** Checking for external libraries... checking for libgcrypt-config... /opt/local/bin/libgcrypt-config checking for LIBGCRYPT - version >= 1.2.2... yes checking LIBGCRYPT API version... okay checking whether to disable SRP authentication support... no checking whether to disable PSK authentication support... no checking whether to disable anonymous authentication support... no checking whether to disable extra PKI stuff... no checking whether to disable OpenPGP Certificate authentication support... no checking for opencdk-config... /opt/local/bin/opencdk-config =========================cut======================== from here, the installation hangs forever (i.e. overnight, >= 8h). the script `/opt/local/bin/opencdk-config' is in the required place and executable but not in the list of running processes. `top' reveals that at this time a process `Conftest' uses 50% CPU time, the other 50% is used by `kernel_tas'. ktracing `Conftest' (even with `-id') does not yield a single line of output. ktracing `kernel_tas' does not give any helpful output (at least not for me). incidentally, while I executed the `ktrace' in one case a message turned up in that terminal: ====cut=== Cannot write to "/sw/bin /sw/sbin /opt/local/bin . /Users/vdh/exec /soft/bin /usr/local/bin /Applications/xsoft/ecat PATH /opt/local/bin . /Users/vdh/exec /soft/bin /usr/local/bin /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /Applications/xsoft/ecat /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/X11R6/bin" (press RETURN) ===cut=== I can only guess that this somehow is an error message from the hanging process which otherwise remained unvisible. any ideas appreciated joerg