id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,port 13930,Intermittent failures building Python modules: unable to execute -DNDEBUG,wiml@…,macports-tickets@…,"I'm not sure what's going on here. In all cases, quitting 'port' and restarting it and reissuing the 'install' command succeeds. But one time in five or so, building a Python-based port fails, apparently because it's set $CC to an empty string or something like that: {{{ [var/root] > install py25-tkinter ---> Building py25-tkinter with target build Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command "" cd ""/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_python_py25-tkinter/work/Python-2.5.1/Modules"" && /opt/local/bin/python2.5 setup.py build "" returned error 1 Command output: running build running build_ext building '_tkinter' extension -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -DWITH_APPINIT=1 -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include/python2.5 -c _tkinter.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/_tkinter.o unable to execute -DNDEBUG: No such file or directory error: command '-DNDEBUG' failed with exit status 1 Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. [var/root] > ^D Goodbye root@slowpoke# /opt/local/bin/port ~ MacPorts 1.600 Entering interactive mode... (""help"" for help, ""quit"" to quit) [var/root] > install py25-tkinter ---> Building py25-tkinter with target build ---> Staging py25-tkinter into destroot ---> Installing py25-tkinter 2.5.1_0 ---> Activating py25-tkinter 2.5.1_0 ---> Cleaning py25-tkinter [var/root] > ^D }}} It's not the same port(s) each time, seems to be random. Leopard 10.5.1/9B18, MacPorts 1.600, freshly installed and updated. ",defect,closed,Normal,MacPorts 1.7.0,base,1.6.0,fixed,,mww@… febeling blb@… tolsen pub1@… brunogirin@… macports@… Ricardo.Cordeiro@… lars@… peter.arrenbrecht@… vpribish@… iacanay@… sirpete@… terry@… fhwi93ne@… ryandesign dhelder@… skymoo jannis@… cooljeanius,