On Oct 20, 2012, at 17:52, Felix Emil Drud wrote: > I was trying to install pkgconfig libao, by doing this: > > sudo port install pkgconfig libao > Password: > ---> Computing dependencies for pkgconfig > ---> Dependencies to be installed: libiconv gperf > ---> Configuring gperf > Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell > command failed (see log for details) > Error: Failed to install gperf > Log for gperf is at: > /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_gperf/gperf/main.log > Error: The following dependencies were not installed: libiconv gperf > Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. > To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets> > > I keep getting the "shell command failed" error whenever i try to install > anything, using macports.
"shell command failed" tells us almost nothing other than that "something" went wrong. MacPorts runs shell commands all the time. To learn anything, we must know *what* shell command failed, and with *what* error message. The aforementioned main.log file might tell us more. > I tried searching for the error and found a mailing list archive where it > said that i should try reinstalling db46: That's probably not relevant to your issue. > sudo port -f uninstall db46 > sudo port clean --all db46 > sudo port install db46 > > I did this but received the following error, when executing the last command: > http://pastebin.com/i4ZN6w1S This log says: :info:configure configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables :info:configure See `config.log' for more details. Seeing that config.log file might tell us more about why it failed. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
