problem with fresh MacPorts install on 10.13

[Chris Jones]

what does running

 > sudo port -d sync

give ?

On 23/08/2019 3:54 pm, Noam Bernstein via macports-users wrote:
> Hi - I’ve been happily using MacPorts for years, and just had a weird 
> problem.  I’m trying to install it on an OS X 10.13 machine, fresh 
> install, MacPorts version says 2.5.4 (and I did selfupdate and upgrade 
> outdated).  When I do
> 
>     port install gcc8
> 
> (or any other gcc version I’ve tried so far) it says
> 
>     Error: dependency ‘libiconv’ not found.
> 
> indeed, when I do
> 
>     port search libiconv
> 
> all I get are php??-libiconv options, not libiconv itself.  When I check 
> the web site for available ports, it lists libiconv 1.16, but my 
> installation doesn’t seem to know about it.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what’s going on?
> 
> Noam