macport selfupdate

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 20, 2007, at 04:27, Giovanni Ianelli wrote:

> I tried to update macports. This is the result:
>
> sudo port selfupdate
> Password:
> MacPorts base version 1.5 installed
> Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.520
> Configuring, Building and Installing new MacPorts base
> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: selfupdate failed: Error installing new  
> MacPorts base: shell command "cd /opt/local/var/macports/sources/ 
> rsync.macports.org/release/base && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local  
> --with-install-user=root --with-install-group=admin --with- 
> tclpackage=/Library/Tcl && make && make install" returned error 1
> Command output: checking build system type... powerpc-apple- 
> darwin8.10.0
> checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin8.10.0
> checking target system type... powerpc-apple-darwin8.10.0
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables... configure: error: cannot  
> compute suffix of executables: cannot compile and link
> See `config.log' for more details.

If you have Xcode < 2.4.1, upgrade to Xcode 2.4.1, available here:

http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/

If you already have Xcode 2.4.1, please show us what's in the  
config.log. It will probably be in the directory /opt/local/var/ 
macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/base