installing apple-gcc42 failed

[benshimo@…]

Just moved to mavericks. Uninstalled MacPorts, reinstall it from fresh. While trying to install gnu prolog one of the dependencies named apple-gcc42 fails The log file is attached. In addition this is what is printed on the shell

--->  Fetching archive for apple-gcc42
--->  Attempting to fetch apple-gcc42-5666.3_13.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/apple-gcc42
--->  Attempting to fetch apple-gcc42-5666.3_13.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/apple-gcc42
--->  Attempting to fetch apple-gcc42-5666.3_13.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/apple-gcc42
--->  Fetching distfiles for apple-gcc42
--->  Attempting to fetch gcc-5666.3.tar.gz from http://mse.uk.distfiles.macports.org/sites/distfiles.macports.org/apple-gcc42
--->  Verifying checksums for apple-gcc42
--->  Extracting apple-gcc42
--->  Applying patches to apple-gcc42
--->  Configuring apple-gcc42
--->  Building apple-gcc42
Error: org.macports.build for port apple-gcc42 returned: command execution failed
Error: Failed to install apple-gcc42
Please see the log file for port apple-gcc42 for details:
    /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_lang_apple-gcc42/apple-gcc42/main.log
Error: The following dependencies were not installed: apple-gcc42 autoconf m4 perl5 perl5.12 gdbm gettext expat libiconv gperf ncurses xz automake libtool
To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
    http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
Error: Processing of port gprolog failed

[benshimo@…]

Apparently as part of Mavericks update the command line tools of Xcode were not functioning, in spite that it was set using the menu option within Xcode using the old way of

xcode-select --install

in the shell solved the issue It might be worthwhile to leave this comment for a while. I'm certain that yehuda

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Already documented on MavericksProblems