new setuid error

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 11, 2012, at 08:46, Mr. Puneet Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:

> checking for gcc... /usr/bin/cc
> checking whether the C compiler works... no
> configure: error: in `/opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base':
> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> See `config.log' for more details

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> So, it seems there is no `/usr/bin/cc`.

Not necessarily; it just means that the compiler, if there is one, cannot create executables, and if you read the config.log file, it might tell you more about why that happened.

> I have no idea how this happened as I have, for the past several months now, installed lots of macport packages successfully.
> 
> As I noted in my OP, I did upgrade to Mountain Lion, and therefore, to Xcode 4.4. Could that be a cause?

Sure. Ensure you've done all of these things:

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#xcode43