I had some issues updating gnucash on a macbook (c2d), 10.4.8, so I started from scratch. Unfortunately, I ran into the same issue. (Hurray for macports, "doing the right thing", though!). Running port version 1.320 The build fails for me in the install phase of builing qt3. InstallScript.sh, in the qt3 working directory, has the offending line: mv /opt/local/var/db/dports/build/ _private_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpu pdate_dports_x11_qt3/work/destroot/opt/local/lib/*.* /opt/local/var/ db/dports/build/ _private_opt_local_var_db_dports_sources_rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpu pdate_dports_x11_qt3/work/destroot/opt/local/lib/qt3/lib/ which fails, because the "*.*" pattern does not match in said directory. I can remove/comment this line, and the build proceeds. aqbanking then fails in configure, trying to locate (AFAIK), the qt uic compiler: configure: *** QT3 is required for QT-frontend "qbanking". Specify -- with-frontends="cbanking g2banking" to build aqbanking without that frontend. configure: error: *** Requirements not fulfilled. Fix your requirements or change the *** configuration. So I modified the aqbanking ports file, and added the above recommended flags, and the build succeeds. The rest of the dependencies build, as does gnucash (eventually!). I have no idea if the changes I made are the right ones. Who would I contact to verify? I'm not sure if I have the time to formulate an official patch, as I am not entirely sure which objects I modified are derived objects. Gnucash seems to run, though I have not exactly put it through its paces. I see that gnucash has quite a few (recursive) dependencies! For anyone interested, here is what gets installed from a fresh 1.320 macports install, after issuing port install gnucash:

port installed The following ports are currently installed: aqbanking @2.2.6_0 (active) atk @1.12.4_0 (active) audiofile @0.2.6_0 (active) autoconf @2.60_0 (active) automake @1.10_0 (active) bison @2.3_0 (active) cairo @1.2.6_0 (active) cups-headers @1.1.15_1 (active) dbus @1.0.2_1 (active) dbus-glib @0.72_0 (active) docbook-xml @4.3_0 (active) docbook-xml-412 @4.1.2_0 (active) docbook-xml-scrollkeeper @4.2_0 (active) docbook-xsl @1.69.1_0 (active) esound @0.2.36_0 (active) expat @2.0.0_1 (active) fontconfig @2.4.2_0+macosx (active) freetype @2.1.10_1 (active) g-wrap @1.3.4_3 (active) gail @1.9.2_0 (active) gconf @2.14.0_0 (active) gettext @0.16.1_0 (active) glib1 @1.2.10_5 (active) glib2 @2.12.7_0 (active) gnome-icon-theme @2.16.1_1 (active) gnome-keyring @0.6.0_0 (active) gnome-mime-data @2.4.3_0 (active) gnome-vfs @2.16.3_1 (active) gnucash @2.0.4_0 (active) gnucash-docs @2.0.1_0 (active) goffice @0.2.1_0 (active) gtk2 @2.10.7_0 (active) guile @1.6.8_0+darwin_8 (active) gwenhywfar @2.5.1_0 (active) hicolor-icon-theme @0.9_0 (active) howl @0.9.10_0 (active) icon-naming-utils @0.8.1_0 (active) intltool @0.35.4_0 (active) jpeg @6b_1 (active) ktoblzcheck @1.12_0 (active) libart_lgpl @2.3.17_0 (active) libbonobo @2.16.0_0 (active) libbonoboui @2.16.0_1 (active) libglade2 @2.6.0_1 (active) libgnome @2.16.0_1 (active) libgnomecanvas @2.14.0_1 (active) libgnomecups @0.2.2_0 (active) libgnomeprint @2.12.1_0 (active) libgnomeprintui @2.12.1_0 (active) libgnomeui @2.16.1_0 (active) libgsf @1.14.3_1 (active) libgtkhtml @2.11.0_0 (active) libgtkhtml3 @3.12.2_0 (active) libiconv @1.11_4+darwin_8 (active) libidl @0.8.7_0 (active) libpng @1.2.15_0+darwin_8 (active) libtool @1.5.22_0 (active) libxml2 @2.6.27_0 (active) libxslt @1.1.15_0 (active) m4 @1.4.4_0 (active) neon @0.26.2_1 (active) openssl @0.9.8d_0+darwin_8 (active) orbit2 @2.14.3_0 (active) p5-compress-raw-zlib @2.003_0 (active) p5-compress-zlib @2.003_0 (active) p5-crypt-ssleay @0.53_0 (active) p5-datemanip @5.44_0 (active) p5-finance-quote @1.13_0 (active) p5-html-parser @3.56_0 (active) p5-html-tableextract @2.10_0 (active) p5-html-tagset @3.10_0 (active) p5-io-compress-base @2.003_0 (active) p5-io-compress-zlib @2.003_0 (active) p5-libwww-perl @5.805_0 (active) p5-uri @1.35_0 (active) p5-xml-namespacesupport @1.09_0 (active) p5-xml-parser @2.34_3 (active) p5-xml-simple @2.16_0 (active) pango @1.14.9_0 (active) perl5.8 @5.8.8_0+darwin_8 (active) pkgconfig @0.21_0 (active) popt @1.10.4_2 (active) qt3 @3.3.7_0+darwin_8 (active) readline @5.1.004_0 (active) render @0.9_0 (active) scrollkeeper @0.3.14_3 (active) slib @3a3_0 (active) slib-guile @1.0_1 (active) tiff @3.8.2_0+darwin_8 (active) Xft2 @2.1.7_0 (active) xrender @0.9.0_0+darwin_8 (active) yelp @2.6.5_0 (active) zlib @1.2.3_0 (active)