Can't update Macports (with Mac OS X Mavericks)

Question

After upgrading Mac OS X to newest version Mavericks, I attempted to selfupdate my Macports, but it failed:

$ sudo port -v selfupdate
--->  Updating MacPo         


        

Answer 1

I had this issue on Mountain Lion and it was actually to do with MacPorts looking at an old XCode path (I had several versions including betas installed). I ran with the -d option and checked the config.log file at /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/base and it reported some errors:-

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configure:3331: checking for C compiler version
configure:3340: gcc --version >&5
Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode5-DP3.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
xcrun: Error: could not stat active Xcode path '/Applications/Xcode5-DP3.app/Contents/Developer'. (No such file or directory)
configure:3351: $? = 0
configure:3340: gcc -v >&5
Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode5-DP3.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
xcrun: Error: could not stat active Xcode path '/Applications/Xcode5-DP3.app/Contents/Developer'. (No such file or directory)
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So I gave it the correct path using:-

sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

and that fixed it.

I got my clues from this useful page.