Error installing MacPorts to alternate prefix

[Craig Treleaven]

At 7:24 PM +0200 4/2/14, Clemens Lang wrote:
>...
>>  Possibly being reckless, I went ahead with the make install...which
>>  wandered off into the weeds, muttering:
>>
>>  >/opt/local/bin/tclsh src/images_to_archives.tcl
>>  >"/opt/dvr/share/macports/Tcl"
>>  >can't find package msgcat
>>  >     while executing
>>  >"package require msgcat"
>>  >     (file "/opt/dvr/share/macports/Tcl/registry2.0/registry.tcl" line 40)
>>  >     invoked from within
>>  >"source /opt/dvr/share/macports/Tcl/registry2.0/registry.tcl"
>>  >     ("package ifneeded registry 1.0" script)
>>  >     invoked from within
>>  >"package require registry 1.0"
>>  >     (file "src/images_to_archives.tcl" line 10)
>>  >make: *** [install] Error 1
>
>That suggests you are building against Tcl 8.6, possibly because you have the
>Tcl port installed and didn't remove $prefix from your $PATH while
>configuring MacPorts. MacPorts currently doesn't support Tcl 8.6.

Yes, thanks, that would be it.  Perhaps the install instructions [1] 
might mention this?

Craig

[1] http://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports
OR  http://www.macports.org/install.php