error installing DarwinPorts or MacPorts: no acceptable C compiler

[jwegelin]

Dear Macports Users:

I am attempting to install MacPorts or DarwinPorts. When I follow the 
directions at http://darwinports.com/download/ (after typing in my email 
address), an error says "no acceptable C compiler."

My MacBook Pro was purchased circa July 2007 and runs Mac OS 10.4.11. Do 
I have to purchase a C compiler before I can install MacPorts or 
DarwinPorts? What C compiler should I purchase or download?

Details:

I downloaded DarwinPorts-1.5.0-10.4.dmg and doubleclicked it. This 
brought up a dialog box which said it was installing MacPorts.  After 
several minutes the dialog box said it was finished.

Then, following instructions at

http://darwinports.com/download/?email=jwegelin%40vcu.edu&x=53&y=12

I typed

sudo port -d selfupdate

which resulted in a lot of text scrolling past, ending with the folowing 
error message:


configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.

     while executing
"macports::selfupdate [array get global_options]"
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... i686-apple-darwin8.11.1
checking host system type... i686-apple-darwin8.11.1
checking target system type... i686-apple-darwin8.11.1
checking for sw_vers... sw_vers
checking Mac OS X version... 10.4.11
checking MacPorts version... 1.6.0
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl.exe... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.


Inicidentally, the only reason I am trying to install this, is so that I 
might install pine or alpine (email client) on my Mac. Would MacPorts or 
DarwinPorts be an easy way to get pine (or preferably alpine) installed 
properly on my Mac?

Also, is MacPorts the same as DarwinPorts? The file I downloaded was 
called DarwinPorts, but after I doublelicked it, the name MacPorts 
started coming up.

Thanks for any info

Jacob Wegelin