can't read "portname": no such variable

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 07:47:56PM -0700, Jeremy Huddleston said:
> Anyone have any clue where this is coming from?  I've seen it in multiple 
> ports (db46, gmp, gperf, zlib).  I think I started seeing it after 
> updating base last week... all of these ports use muniversal... maybe 
> that's part of it... anyone have a clue?
>
> --->  Computing dependencies for gmp.
> --->  Fetching gmp
> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for gmp
> --->  Checksumming gmp-4.3.1.tar.bz2
> --->  Extracting gmp
> --->  Extracting gmp-4.3.1.tar.bz2
> --->  Applying patches to gmp
> --->  Applying /Users/jeremy/src/macports-trunk/dports/devel/gmp/files/ 
> patch-gmp-h.in.diff
> patching file gmp-h.in
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 421 with fuzz 1.
> patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line
> patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line
> --->  Configuring gmp
> Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: can't read "portname": no 
> such variable

Sounds like you need to sync, at least to r51751 :

<http://trac.macports.org/changeset/51751>

(portname, and other port* variables, were recently removed).

Bryan