Error running MacPorts

[Jyrki Wahlstedt]

On 31.8.2007, at 9.49, Richard Connamacher wrote:

>
> On Aug 30, 2007, at 4:24 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>>> I can only think that something got royally screwed up when I  
>>> restored my Mac from a backup, since it used to work before.  
>>> Maybe some critical libraries used by GCC were corrupted in the  
>>> process? I was planning to hold off until Leopard before I do a  
>>> full clean reinstall of the OS, since it's going to take a long  
>>> time to get everything back in...
>>
>> Possible that some permissions weren't properly preserved during  
>> your backup/restore. Or some other problem occurred. I recommend  
>> you uninstall Xcode (using the uninstall script found on the Xcode  
>> disk image). Then install all of Xcode again.
>
> I completely uninstalled both XCode and MacPorts. I rebooted,  
> repaired disk permissions (from Disk Utility), installed XCode,  
> rebooted, reinstalled MacPorts, rebooted, then tried again (port  
> selfupdate).
>
> Same exact error. C Compiler can't create executables. Argh.
>
> Thank-you for the help. I'm thinking it's the OS install that got  
> hosed (BSD libraries maybe?), so the only (reasonable) way to fix  
> it would be a reinstall of the operating system. Unless I really  
> get in a jam where I can't find any way around compiling software,  
> I'll probably hold off until Leopard in two months (hopefully) and  
> reinstall everything at the same time. That'll give me time to dig  
> all my installer CDs and registration cards out and get 'em dusted  
> off.
>
> Rich

Hi,
as reinstallments of Xcode and MacPorts have not worked, you could  
try the combo OS update packages from Apple's site. Doing the upgrade  
might correct something that has gone wrong in the base system. No  
guarantees on this one, however…

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