MacPorts-1.6.0 Won't Build

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 01:34:27PM -0600, Etherous said:
> Running MacBook: Intel Core Duo with Mac OS 10.5.4
>
> I already tried the DarwinPorts-1.6.0-10.5-Leopard.dmg version. The .pkg 
> SEEMED to run successfully, but whatever it did, it didn't install 
> DarwinPorts.

Where did you find a DarwinPorts 1.6 DMG?  DarwinPorts ended prior to 1.6 so
all DMG's [1] should be called MacPorts-1.6.0*.

> So next, I tried to manually build the MacPorts-1.6.0.tar.gz 
> version. However, during ./configure, the following was displayed 
> immediately before terminating:
>
> configure: Using Apple Objective-C runtime
> checking for Apple Foundation library... no
> configure: WARNING: GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT is not defined in your  
> environment, preventing the use of GNUstep's Foundation library
> configure: error: Could not find a working Foundation implementation
>

Make sure you have Xcode installed, as this is probably failing to find all
the necessary bits for compilation (the runtime stuff is obviously installed
for basic OS functionality but I don't believe headers are by default).  
You'll need Xcode anyway to build ports once MacPorts is successfully 
installed.

Bryan

[1] - <http://www.macports.org/install.php>


> I know for a fact the Apple Foundation library exists (obviously) and, to 
> no avail, tried setting the following two environment variables:
> APPLE_FOUNDATION_LIBS="-framework Foundation"
> APPLE_FOUNDATION_CFLAGS="-framework Foundation"
>
> I could use some help at this point. Googling found absolutely nothing I 
> could use. If someone could either help me to fix the ./configure or  
> figure out where the package from the DMG installed to, I would greatly 
> appreciate it.