"invalid command name"

[William Davis]

On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Florian Ebeling wrote:

> I keep on getting these errors lately with various
> ports, not just these. Any idea?
>
> flomac:~ root# port build gnuplot
> Error: Error executing darwin_8: invalid command name "configure.cc"
> Error: Unable to execute port: Error evaluating variants
> flomac:~ root# port build hugs98
> Error: Error executing darwin_8: invalid command name  
> "configure.compiler"
> Error: Unable to open port: Error evaluating variants
>
> -- 
> Florian Ebeling
> florian.ebeling at gmail.com
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why were you using "port build gnuplot" instead of "port install  
gnuplot"?
anyway try port clean gnuplot and then port install gnuplot