shell command failed

[Felix Drud]

> On Oct 20, 2012, at 17:52, Felix Emil Drud wrote:
>
>> I was trying to install pkgconfig libao, by doing this:
>>
>> sudo port install pkgconfig libao
>> Password:
>> --->  Computing dependencies for pkgconfig
>> --->  Dependencies to be installed: libiconv gperf
>> --->  Configuring gperf
>> Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command failed (see log for details)
>> Error: Failed to install gperf
>> Log for gperf is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_gperf/gperf/main.log
>> Error: The following dependencies were not installed: libiconv gperf
>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>> To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>
>>
>> I keep getting the "shell command failed" error whenever i try to install anything, using macports.
>
> "shell command failed" tells us almost nothing other than that "something" went wrong. MacPorts runs shell commands all the time. To learn anything, we must know *what* shell command failed, and with *what* error message. The aforementioned main.log file might tell us more.
>
>> I tried searching for the error and found a mailing list archive where it said that i should try reinstalling db46:
>
> That's probably not relevant to your issue.
>
>> sudo port -f uninstall db46
>> sudo port clean --all db46
>> sudo port install db46
>>
>> I did this but received the following error, when executing the last command:
>> http://pastebin.com/i4ZN6w1S
>
> This log says:
>
> :info:configure configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> :info:configure See `config.log' for more details.
>
> Seeing that config.log file might tell us more about why it failed.
Any idea where I can find the config.log file?