selfupdate fails

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 29, 2009, at 11:17, Jochen Küpper wrote:

> after the announcement of 1.7.1 I run port selfupdate, however,  
> this bails -- could be due to gcc_select 4.3?
>
> So, this is a Mac OS X 10.5.6 system with MacPorts 1.7.0. I have  
> used gcc_select to pick gcc-mp-4.3:
>   /opt/local/bin/gcc@ -> /opt/local/bin/gcc-mp-4.3

I don't know.... could you try removing the /opt/local/bin/gcc  
symlink and see if selfupdate then works? I would have hoped that  
selfupdate, like MacPorts itself, would use only the very specific  
gcc version with which we have all tested (/usr/bin/gcc-4.0).