current libiconv port gets unnecessary upgrade, fails building

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 11:19:53PM -0500, martin krastev said:
> Thank you, Bryan. Here are the details as you advised:
[...]
> 
> $ port version
> Warning: /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf source
> 'rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ [default]' specifies
> invalid flag 'default'
> Version: 1.600
[...]
> 
> From the above, I suspect that my macports may be outdated - shall I
> proceed with a selfupdate?

Most definitely, 1.7 fixes an issue (the Tcl env bug) which is probably what
you were originally seeing, as well as many other improvements (and will also
fix the 'Group not found').

So definitely run selfupdate, then clean libiconv (sudo port clean libiconv)
and try again.

Bryan


> 
> -martin