"sudo port install gimp" does not work on 10.6

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I just bought a new mac with 10.6 on it. In attempting to build gimp I get the following out of mac ports:

bash-3.2$ sudo port install gimp
--->  Computing dependencies for gimp
--->  Building python26
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_python26/work/Python-2.6.2" && /usr/bin/make all MAKE="/usr/bin/make CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2" " returned error 2
Command output: /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 -L/opt/local/lib -u _PyMac_Error Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Python -o python.exe \
                        Modules/python.o \
                         -ldl      
ld: warning: in Python.framework/Versions/2.6/Python, file is not of required architecture
Undefined symbols:
  "_PyMac_Error", referenced from:
  "_Py_Main", referenced from:
      _main in python.o
ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [python.exe] Error 1

Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gimp-app gimp2 gegl babl librsvg libgsf gnome-vfs gconf gtk2 atk gtk-doc gnome-doc-utils py26-libxml2 python26 rarian getopt intltool gnome-common p5-getopt-long p5-pathtools p5-scalar-list-utils jasper shared-mime-info xorg-libXcomposite xorg-compositeproto xorg-libXfixes xorg-fixesproto xorg-libXcursor xorg-libXdamage xorg-damageproto xorg-libXi xorg-libXinerama xorg-xineramaproto xorg-libXrandr xorg-randrproto orbit2 libidl policykit gnome-mime-data libbonobo w3m ffmpeg XviD dirac cppunit faac libmp4v2 faad2 gmake lame libogg libsdl-devel libtheora libvorbis schroedinger liboil x264 graphviz gd2 xpm urw-fonts xorg-libXaw xorg-libXmu libopenraw libsdl lua openexr ilmbase gsed lcms libexif libgnomeui gnome-icon-theme hicolor-icon-theme icon-naming-utils p5-xml-simple p5-xml-namespacesupport p5-xml-sax gnome-keyring libgcrypt libgpg-error libtasn1 libbonoboui libglade2 libgnome esound audiofile libgnomecanvas libmng libwmf poppler openjpeg poppler-data py25-gtk py25-cairo py25-numpy fftw-3 py25-nose py25-setuptools python25 py25-gobject gimp-jp2 gimp-lqr-plugin liblqr gtk-nodoka-engine coreutils gmp gutenprint icns-gimp macclipboard-gimp macfile-gimp ufraw exiv2 gtkimageview xsane sane-backends libusb-compat libusb
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

(similar problems happen when building inkscape)

[skymoo (Adam Mercer)]

python26 failure, duplicate of #20284