Cannot install Bison

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 23, 2007, at 11:36, Michael Welch wrote:

> On Dec 23, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Dec 23, 2007, at 10:59, Michael Welch wrote:
>>
>>> Macintosh:~ jswelch$ sudo port install bison
>>> --->  Configuring expat
>>> Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure:  
>>> shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
>>> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_tex 
>>> tproc_expat/work/expat-2.0.1" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local  
>>> --mandir=/opt/local/share/man " returned error 77
>>> Command output: checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin9.1.0
>>> checking host system type... i386-apple-darwin9.1.0
>>> checking for gcc... gcc
>>> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure:  
>>> error: C compiler cannot create executables
>>> See `config.log' for more details.
>>>
>>> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gettext expat  
>>> libiconv m4
>>> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>>
>> So the problem here is with expat, not bison. And it says it  
>> cannot find a compiler. Did you install Xcode? You need to. The  
>> current version of Xcode is 3.0 for Leopard, 2.5 for Tiger or 1.5  
>> for Panther. Please download and install the correct version from  
>> http://developer.apple.com/
>
> I've got Xcode 3 and 2.5 installed on leopard. Could that be the  
> problem?

I would expect that to be fine. (And if it's not, we need to fix  
MacPorts so that it's fine.)

What does the config.log say? It'll be in the directory /opt/local/ 
var/macports/build/ 
_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_textpro 
c_expat/work/expat-2.0.1

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