selfupdate fails

[Marko Käning]

> Absolutely, since the point of the modifications described in UsingTheRightCompiler is to sabotage "gcc" so that you can identify software that is using "gcc" instead of the CC environment variable.

Ha, well, that's the reason for the whole confusion: I forgot to disable this "sabotage" after I had successfully installed makeicns.

So, well, what does this mean for macports itself then?
Looks like there is still an issue here, since it would not install with your sabotage...