On Jan 4, 2008, at 08:10, Charlse Darwin wrote:

On Jan 3, 2008, at 11:41 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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On Jan 3, 2008, at 22:26, Charlse Darwin wrote:

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On Jan 3, 2008, at 11:18 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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On Jan 3, 2008, at 22:11, Charlse Darwin wrote:

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`Command output: configure: error: cannot run /bin/sh ./ config.sub' shows up in every port that I'm trying to install, I just though reinstalling MacPorts might help.

Oh, I didn't realize that. Well that certainly shouldn't be.

Reinstalling MacPorts might help. But I don't think installing the port called MacPorts is the way to do that. At least, that's not documented anywhere.

It all happened after I started playing with xnu (darwin_9, uname -r on my machine returns 8.11.0) I have tried installing MacPorts from this package http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/ MacPorts-1.6.0/MacPorts-1.6.0-10.4-Tiger.dmg

but it failed. I'm thinking maybe I should reinstalling the Xcode too…

XNU is the Mac OS X kernel, yes? What do you mean, playing with it? You are running Tiger? If so, what did you mean when you said "darwin_9"? In what way did installing MacPorts 1.6.0 from the Tiger disk image fail? If you're on Tiger, reinstalling Xcode 2.5 couldn't hurt.

Yes I meant XNU the kernel of Mac OS X and I am running Tiger (darwin_8.11.0). Days ago I tried to build and install the new version of kernel from source code <http://www.opensource.apple.com/ darwinsource/Current/> which failed. Somewhere along I must have messed up something because after that I kept getting this error message: "Command output: configure: error: cannot run /bin/sh ./config.sub" for almost every port I'm trying to install

It does sound messed up. You could try reinstalling Xcode, or you may have to reinstall Mac OS X. Unless there's a config.log file you could look at that suggests a different course of action. But you definitely need to solve this general inability to build things before we tackle any port-specific problems.