install subversion / ncursesw fails on leopard

[jeff@…]

On a fresh Leopard installation (Intel), 'sudo port install subversion' fails because ncursesw can't find awk:

elma:~ jeff$ sudo port install subversion Password: ---> Fetching apr ---> Attempting to fetch apr-1.2.11.tar.bz2 from ​http://www.apache.org/dist/apr ---> Verifying checksum(s) for apr ---> Extracting apr ---> Configuring apr ---> Building apr with target all ---> Staging apr into destroot ---> Installing apr 1.2.11_0+darwin_9 ---> Activating apr 1.2.11_0+darwin_9 ---> Cleaning apr ---> Fetching db44 ---> Attempting to fetch patch.4.4.20.1 from ​http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/db/update/4.4.20/ ---> Attempting to fetch patch.4.4.20.2 from ​http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/db/update/4.4.20/ ---> Attempting to fetch patch.4.4.20.3 from ​http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/db/update/4.4.20/ ---> Attempting to fetch patch.4.4.20.4 from ​http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/db/update/4.4.20/ ---> Attempting to fetch db-4.4.20.tar.gz from ​http://downloads.sleepycat.com/ ---> Verifying checksum(s) for db44 ---> Extracting db44 ---> Applying patches to db44 ---> Configuring db44 ---> Building db44 with target all ---> Staging db44 into destroot ---> Installing db44 4.4.20_1 ---> Activating db44 4.4.20_1 ---> Cleaning db44 ---> Fetching ncursesw ---> Attempting to fetch ncurses-5.6.tar.gz from ​http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses ---> Verifying checksum(s) for ncursesw ---> Extracting ncursesw ---> Applying patches to ncursesw ---> Configuring ncursesw Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_ncursesw/work/ncurses-5.6" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --enable-widec --disable-rpath --with-shared --without-debug --without-ada --enable-safe-sprintf --enable-sigwinch --mandir=/opt/local/share/man " returned error 1 Command output: checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for executable suffix... checking for object suffix... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking version of gcc... 4.0.1 checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes checking for POSIXized ISC... no checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... -DCC_HAS_PROTOS checking for ldconfig... no checking if you want to ensure bool is consistent with C++... yes checking for g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking for g++... /usr/bin/g++ checking version of g++... 4.0.1 checking if you want to build C++ binding and demo... yes checking if you want to build with Ada95... no checking if you want to build programs such as tic... yes checking if you wish to install curses.h... yes checking for mawk... (cached) no checking for gawk... (cached) no checking for nawk... (cached) no checking for awk... (cached) no configure: error: No awk program found

Error: The following dependencies failed to build: apr-util sqlite3 readline ncurses ncursesw gettext neon openssl Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. elma:~ jeff$