Perl 5.8 installs breaks

[castille@…]

A clean install of Macports, installing Perl5.8 with nothing else produces the following error messages:

ld: in /usr/local/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib, file was built for unsupported file format which is not the architecture being linked (i386)
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [miniperl] Error 1
shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_perl5.8/work/perl-5.8.9" && /usr/bin/make -j2 all " returned error 2
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command failed
Warning: the following items did not execute (for perl5.8): org.macports.activate org.macports.build org.macports.destroot org.macports.install
Log for perl5.8 is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_perl5.8/main.log
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

[blb@…]

You appear to have a build of gcc (and related libraries) under /usr/local which is interfering with MacPorts' attempt to compile stuff (this is unfortunately unavoidable, see the FAQ entry). The usual recommendation is to mv /usr/local to /usr/local.hold (or whatever), install what you need in MacPorts, then put /usr/local.hold back to /usr/local.

[ghosthound]

invalid due to unsupported configuration