expat will not build while installing libtool

[kioarthurdane@…]

I just installed MacPorts 1.6.0 and XQuartz 2.3.1 on a new machine. MacPort had no issue installing libtool on two other machines about a week ago.

[ : ~ ] sudo port install libtool
--->  Configuring expat
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_textproc_expat/work/expat-2.0.1" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --mandir=/opt/local/share/man " returned error 77
Command output: checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin9.5.0
checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin9.5.0
checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc-4.0
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

Error: The following dependencies failed to build: automake autoconf help2man gettext expat libiconv gperf ncurses ncursesw p5-locale-gettext perl5.8 m4
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

This is actually a problem installing expat. I'm assigning the ticket to that port's maintainer.

This looks like an Xcode problem. What version do you have installed? Make sure you have the ​latest version installed which is currently 3.1.1 for Leopard (which you appear to have).

[kioarthurdane@…]

Turns out I didn't have Xcode properly installed. Downloaded 3.1.1, installed, ran

sudo port install expat

and it worked.

Sorry to trouble you! Go ahead and close the ticket out.

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