Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command failed (see log for details)

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 13, 2011, at 11:14, Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> On Apr 13, 2011, at 11:36 AM, James Benstead wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for the quick - and really helpful response. I've worked through this but the final command,
>> 
>> sudo port -dv upgrade apr-util
>> 
>> Returned the following error message:
>> 
>> configure: error: iconv support requested, but not found
> 
> that's odd.
> 
> you can probably do the same with iconv that you did with db46 (uninstall, clean, reinstall) and then clean/upgrade apr-util again.
> 
> Did you by any chance migrate your macports installation from an older machine to your current one? If so, you really need to follow the migration instructions (https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration)

Yes, it looks like a typical Migration situation. The real error message would probably have been in the config.log.