error on port selfupdate

Marco Battistella macports.mb at makeko.com
Wed Mar 7 19:42:44 PST 2007


HI,
actually that was the first thing I had tried (thinking that I might  
had forgot to install the xtools).
Anyway i ran the xtools installer it again, just to try, but the  
error persists.
Does anybody know where the config.log for this operation is located?
thanks,
Marco



On Mar 7, 2007, at 7:04 PM, Christian Voelker wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Am 08.03.2007 um 00:48 schrieb Marco Battistella:
>
>> when trying to run a port selfupdate command i get the following  
>> error:
>>>> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure:  
>> error: C compiler cannot create executables
>> See `config.log' for more details.
>>
>> This is in a system with a fresh OS install, my configuration is  
>> OS X server 10.3.9 with xTools installed and all updates installed.
>> I tried re installing darwingports but i still get the same error.
>
> I would try and install Developer Tools again. I had exactly the  
> same error
> on a completely different machine (iMac G5, Mac OS X 10.4.8 and  
> Developer
> Tools 2.4.0). I believe that somebody (myself?) did a partial  
> install of
> Developer Tools before. I just installed Developer Tools 2.4.1 over it
> and everything went fine afterwards.
>
> Bye, Christian
>
>




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