newbie trying to install gphoto2

[Chris O'Shea]

Hi Ryan

I tried doing a selfupdate from darwinports into macports, but got an 
error saying I didn't have a C compiler in my PATH. Any suggestions on 
how to fix this, the best one to use?

Thanks
Chris

(error below)

DarwinPorts base version 1.400 installed
Downloaded MacPorts base version 1.442
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/db/dports/sources/rsync.rsync.darwinports.org_dpupdate1/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-darwin8.8.5
checking host system type... i686-apple-darwin8.8.5
checking target system type... i686-apple-darwin8.8.5
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.