sudo port install gnutar

[Ryan Schmidt]

Sounds like you should file a ticket in the issue tracker and assign  
it to mww.

On Dec 31, 2007, at 11:32, Charlse Darwin wrote:

> $ sudo port install gnutar
> --->  Configuring gnutar
> 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_archi 
> vers_gnutar/work/tar-1.19" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local -- 
> program-prefix=gnu --infodir=/opt/local/share/info " returned error 1
> Command output: checking for ftruncate... yes
> checking for gettimeofday... yes
> checking for nanotime... no
> checking for alarm... yes
> checking for lchmod... no
> checking for fdopendir... no
> checking for mbsinit... yes
> checking for mbrtowc... yes
> checking for wcrtomb... yes
> checking for wcscoll... yes
> checking for setenv... yes
> checking for sleep... yes
> checking for strerror... yes
> checking for lstat... yes
> checking for pipe... yes
> checking for futimes... yes
> checking for futimesat... no
> checking for vasnprintf... no
> checking for iswcntrl... yes
> checking for wcwidth... yes
> checking for mkfifo... yes
> checking for setlocale... yes
> checking for d_ino member in directory struct... yes
> checking whether system is Windows or MSDOS... no
> checking for long file names... yes
> checking whether canonicalize_file_name is declared... no
> checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
> checking for working chown... yes
> checking whether chown(2) dereferences symlinks... yes
> configure: error: cannot run /bin/sh build-aux/config.sub
>
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
> $