[MacPorts] #16610: Configure failure

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#16610: Configure failure
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  Reporter:  wkanoff@…          |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
      Type:  defect             |      Status:  closed                               
  Priority:  Normal             |   Milestone:  MacPorts Future                      
 Component:  base               |     Version:  1.6.0                                
Resolution:  worksforme         |    Keywords:                                       
      Port:                     |  
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Comment(by yasir.suhail@…):

 I have the same problem, I am running Tiger 10.4, and have XCode 2.5

 echo $PATH gives
 /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin/:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin/:/sw/bin/:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin
 /powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/Applications/MATLAB/bin

 which sed gives:
 /usr/bin/sed

 I can run cat, sed and other commands from my terminal window. I am not
 sure what's going on.

 While trying to install a port, I get
 --->  Computing dependencies for zlib
 --->  Configuring zlib
 Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell
 command " cd
 "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_archivers_zlib/work/zlib-1.2.3"
 && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --shared " returned error 127
 Command output: ./configure: line 1: sed: command not found
 ./configure: line 1: sed: command not found
 ./configure: line 1: sed: command not found
 ./configure: line 1: sed: command not found
 ./configure: line 62: cat: command not found
 Checking for shared library support...
 No shared library support; try without defining CC and CFLAGS
 Building static library libz.a version with /usr/bin/gcc-4.0.
 ./configure: line 195: cat: command not found
 ./configure: line 200: sed: command not found
 Checking for unistd.h... Yes.
 ./configure: line 207: cat: command not found
 Checking whether to use vs[n]printf() or s[n]printf()... using
 vs[n]printf()
 ./configure: line 225: cat: command not found
 Checking for vsnprintf() in stdio.h... No.
   WARNING: vsnprintf() not found, falling back to vsprintf(). zlib
   can build but will be open to possible buffer-overflow security
   vulnerabilities.
 ./configure: line 287: cat: command not found
 Checking for return value of vsprintf()... Yes.
 ./configure: line 402: cat: command not found
 Checking for errno.h... Yes.
 ./configure: line 413: cat: command not found
 Checking for mmap support... Yes.
 ./configure: line 439: rm: command not found
 ./configure: line 442: sed: command not found

 Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
 Error: Unable to execute port: upgrade zlib failed

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