dpkg problems

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Jan 15, 2009, at 13:24, Joshua Root wrote:
>> checking for C compiler default output file name... configure:  
>> error: C
>> compiler cannot create executables
>> See `config.log' for more details.
>
> <http://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#IgettheerrorCcompilercannotcreateexecutableswhenItrytoinstallaport 
> >

And if that doesn't work, look through config.log "for more details".   
It'll be somewhere in $prefix/var/macports/build/*expat/work ...  
likely /opt/local/var/macports/build/*expat/work/expat-*/config.log

--Jeremy