Forwarding this message back to the mailing list so someone who knows about libao and/or Leopard can look at it; I know about neither. Begin forwarded message:

From: Damian Eastwood <damianeastwood@yahoo.co.uk> Date: December 2, 2007 05:20:06 CST To: Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign@macports.org> Subject: Re: Libao Failure to Build

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On Dec 1, 2007, at 22:16, Damian Eastwood wrote:

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I am new to Apple Mac, and especially to MacPorts. I have been trying to install Pidgin messenger and have come unstuck with Libao. I have tried googling for a solution and cannot find anything relevant I was hoping someone out there knows what to do.

Welcome to MacPorts!

There have been some changes committed to the libao port in the past 48 hours. Are you sure you have the latest version? Did you "sudo port selfupdate" before trying to install? If not, do it now. Then, "sudo port clean --work libao". Then try to install it again.

If it still doesn't work, please indicate your version of Mac OS X and Xcode and your processor architecture. Thanks.

Thank you for the quick response Ryan. I am running OS 10.5 (Leopard) on a New Intel MacBookPro. I am running Xcode that comes with the Leopard DVD.

I tried running "sudo port selfupdate" and it also failed, so I uninstalled MacPorts following the instructions in the MacPorts guide and reinstalled MacPorts. This time the selfupdate command worked fine.

Unfortunately when I run "sudo port install libao" it still fails. There's nothing out there about this or I wouldn't post. Thank your for your help. Let's hope you can figure it out. (I didn't repost the error messages since they are the same as my original post.)