Inappropriate file type or format causing failure of multiple builds

[singh.madhusudan@…]

--->  Building openssl
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_openssl/work/openssl-0.9.8k" && make all " returned error 2
Command output: making all in crypto/asn1...
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
making all in crypto/pem...
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
making all in crypto/x509...
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
making all in crypto/x509v3...
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
making all in crypto/conf...
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
making all in crypto/txt_db...
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
making all in crypto/pkcs7...
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
making all in crypto/pkcs12...
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
making all in crypto/comp...
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
making all in crypto/ocsp...
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
making all in crypto/ui...
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
making all in crypto/krb5...
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
making all in crypto/store...
ar  r ../../libcrypto.a str_err.o str_lib.o str_meth.o str_mem.o
ar: ../../libcrypto.a: Inappropriate file type or format
make[2]: *** [lib] Error 1
make[1]: *** [subdirs] Error 1
make: *** [build_crypto] Error 1

Error: The following dependencies failed to build: py25-boto python25 openssl sqlite3 tk Xft2 xrender xorg-renderproto tcl xorg-libXScrnSaver xorg-libXext xorg-scrnsaverproto py25-gnupg
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.