Ruby Gem install failing to find Postgres libraries - ruby

I'm going through the instructions for linking Ruby&Sinatra up to Postgres, as found at:
http://recipes.sinatrarb.com/p/databases/postgresql-datamapper?
The final step of the install is failing, when I attempt to run:
gem install dm-postgres-adapter
...and the key part of the error message looks to be these lines:
checking for -lpq... no
checking for -llibpq... no
I've located libpq.dll & libpq.lib on my drive at:
D:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\11\lib
After poking around looking for pq.dll or pq.lib, I don't see either of those on the drive.

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Issues installing libxml gem for ruby on windows

There are a few threads on questions similar to this, but none have proven effective. I attempted asking on the github page with no luck either.
When I attempt the standard command:
gem install libxml-ruby
I receive an error where the installer cannot find libxml2.dll. I found a stackoverflow thread with a similar issue and followed a user's guidelines here on where to grab the missing libraries and where to include them.
If I add arguments to the install command to point at the directories with the missing libraries using the following:
gem install libxml-ruby -- with-xml2-include=C:\Ruby200\include\libxml2 --with-iconv-include=C:\Ruby200\include
I now get an error where the installer can’t find a “iconv.h” header which is in my C:\Ruby200\include directory.
C:\Users\gonz102>gem install libxml-ruby -- with-xml2-include=C:/Ruby200/include
/libxml2 --with-iconv-include=C:/Ruby200/include
Temporarily enhancing PATH to include DevKit...
Building native extensions with: 'with-xml2-include=C:/Ruby200/include/libxml2 -
-with-iconv-include=C:/Ruby200/include'
This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing libxml-ruby:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
C:/Ruby200/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb with-xml2-include=C:/Ruby200/include/libx
ml2 --with-iconv-include=C:/Ruby200/include
checking for libxml/xmlversion.h in /opt/include/libxml2,/opt/local/include/libx
ml2,/usr/local/include/libxml2,/usr/include/libxml2... yes
checking for xmlParseDoc() in -lxml2... yes
checking for rb_io_bufwrite() in ruby/io.h... yes
creating extconf.h
creating Makefile
make "DESTDIR="
compiling libxml.c
In file included from C:/Ruby200/include/libxml2/libxml/parser.h:810:0,
from ruby_libxml.h:7,
from libxml.c:1:
C:/Ruby200/include/libxml2/libxml/encoding.h:28:19: fatal error: iconv.h: No suc
h file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [libxml.o] Error 1
Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/libxml-ru
by-2.9.0 for inspection.
Results logged to C:/Ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/libxml-ruby-2.9.0/ext/libx
ml/gem_make.out
If anyone has any suggestions on what to investigate next or possible solutions I'd greatly appreciate it. I've been stumped on this for over a long while, coming back to it whenever I run into a project with libxml and would gladly take any advice.
Many thanks.
I was unsuccessful with installing libxml version 2.9.0 but 2.7.0 worked just fine. I should specify I'm running windows 7 and Ruby 2.0 32 bit. Here is what I had to do:
-I followed Wik's response here, grabbing all the missing libraries from them mingw64. Admittedly, I'm not sure if I needed all of them, but I sort of took a shotgun approach here.
Added the following to my system path:
Ruby200\lib\ruby\gems\2.0.0\gems\libxml-ruby-2.7.0-x86-mingw32\lib\libs
Executed the following in command line:
gem install libxml-ruby -v2.7.0 -- with-xml2-include:=C/Ruby200/include/libxml2 --with-iconv-include:=C:/Ruby200/include
After that, I the gem, at long last, installed and was actually usable.

updating to svn 1.9.4 via command line in mac

I am using SVN against my will. The current team I work with uses it for version control and they are not always available to help me. I am just trying to go from SVN Version 1.8.13 to the latest 1.9.4
I have download it and I have ran this command too
curl -o subversion-latest.tar.gz http://apache.mirrors.tds.net/subversion/subversion-1.9.4.tar.gz
tar -xvf subversion-latest.tar.gz
I have combined these two different tutorials with no luck.
svn update version
stackover flow issue
I am STUCK at with the configure part..
mymac ~/Downloads/subversion-1.9.4/serf
$ ./configure
-bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
mymac ~/Downloads/subversion-1.9.4/serf
UPDATE
I exited out of serf path and on
`mymac ~/Downloads/subversion-1.9.4` file path i ran the `./configure` My command line ran a bunch of "checks"
configure: Configuring Subversion 1.9.4
configure: creating config.nice checking for gcc...
gcc checking whether the C compiler works...
yes but eventually shot an error at the end...
configure: error: failed to recognize APR_INT64_T_FMT on this platform
mymac ~/Downloads/subversion-1.9.4
I have the latest version of XCode..
UPDATE2 tried neon, again
mymac ~/Downloads/subversion-1.9.4
$ sh get-deps.sh neon
Local directory 'serf' already exists; the downloaded copy won't be used
Local directory 'apr' already exists; the downloaded copy won't be used
Local directory 'apr-util' already exists; the downloaded copy won't be used
get-deps.sh: line 151: get_neon: command not found
Usage: get-deps.sh
Usage: get-deps.sh [ apr | serf | zlib | sqlite | gmock ] ...
mymac ~/Downloads/subversion-1.9.4
$ cd neon
-bash: cd: neon: No such file or directory
UPDATE 3
ran this command first ..
mymac ~/Downloads/subversion-1.9.4
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-serf=/usr/local/serf
configure: Configuring Subversion 1.9.4
configure: creating config.nice
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
I guess I should install a new version of serf?
checking was serf enabled... no
An appropriate version of serf could not be found, so libsvn_ra_serf
will not be built. If you want to build libsvn_ra_serf, please
install serf 1.3.4 or newer.
configure: error: Serf was explicitly enabled but an appropriate version was not found.
I have no clue where to go from here and how to get around it. I already figure out that neon is no longer supported and I am using serf Can someone offer a different way to go about this? Please? Thanks!
Consider using Brew or MacPorts, if possible. Then this can be as simple as:
brew install svn
If you really must install from source,
it might not be as complicated as the steps you described so far.
Try these much simpler steps exactly:
cd /tmp
curl -o subversion-latest.tar.gz http://apache.mirrors.tds.net/subversion/subversion-1.9.4.tar.gz
tar -xvf subversion-latest.tar.gz
cd subversion-1.9.4
./configure --prefix=/tmp/local
make
make install
This will (hopefully) build Subversion and install it into /tmp/local. Test with this command:
/tmp/local/bin/svn --version
If the output looks good, then repeat from the start, but use a different value for --prefix, as appropriate in your environment.
(I tried, and this worked well for me, right now, btw.)
Maybe it's not so simple. In that case please update your question with the output where you get stuck.

Installing Cairo on Mac - Could not find libpng in the pkg-config search path

checking whether cairo's PNG functions feature could be enabled... no
I have been following the setup for configuring node canvas. Cairo is needed but i am having issues trying to set it up. https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas/wiki/Installation---OSX
If libpng fails and you get the error "error: recommended PNG functions feature could not be enabled", try installing this binary and re-running the configure step.
I followed above by installing the binaries on Mac OS 9 and run the configuration command and still no luck. I am running the install shell script in node-canvas repository:
https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas/blob/master/install
In my /usr/local/lib I currently have:
dtrace libjpeg.8.dylib libpng.a libpng14.a
libfreetype.6.dylib libjpeg.a libpng.dylib libpng14.dylib
libfreetype.a libjpeg.dylib libpng.la libpng14.la
libfreetype.dylib libjpeg.la libpng12.0.dylib libpng15.15.dylib
libfreetype.la libpixman-1.0.dylib libpng12.0.dylib.dSYM libpng15.15.dylib.dSYM
libgif.4.1.6.dylib libpixman-1.a libpng12.a libpng15.a
libgif.4.dylib libpixman-1.dylib libpng12.dylib libpng15.dylib
libgif.a libpixman-1.la libpng12.la libpng15.la
libgif.dylib libpng.3.dylib libpng14.14.dylib node_modules
libgif.la libpng.3.dylib.dSYM libpng14.14.dylib.dSYM pkgconfig
Libpng-1.6.10 has been replaced by libpng-1.6.12.
In your install script, change
LIBPNG="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libpng/libpng16/1.6.10/libpng-1.6.10.tar.gz"
to
LIBPNG="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libpng/libpng16/1.6.12/libpng-1.6.12.tar.gz"
I have a set of detailed instructions for building cairo here:
https://github.com/soegaard/racket-osx-libs
There resulting libraries are here:
https://github.com/soegaard/racket-osx-libs/tree/master/lib

Errors installing IJulia: Homebrew and Nettle

I recently tried installing IJulia on OS X 10.6.8, with Julia v0.2.1. After installing IPython, I ran Pkg.build("IJulia") and got the following console errors:
julia> Pkg.build("IJulia")
INFO: Building Homebrew
INFO: Cloning brew from https://github.com/staticfloat/homebrew.git
Cloning into '/Users/peterrichter/.julia/v0.2/Homebrew/deps/usr'...
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libcurl.4.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/Julia-0.2.1.app/Contents/Resources/julia/libexec/git-core/git-remote-https
Reason: Incompatible library version: git-remote-https requires version 7.0.0 or later, but libcurl.4.dylib provides version 6.0.0
==============================[ ERROR: Homebrew ]===============================
brew_prefix! not defined
at /Users/peterrichter/.julia/v0.2/Homebrew/src/Homebrew.jl:200
at /Users/peterrichter/.julia/v0.2/Homebrew/deps/build.jl:1
================================================================================
It seems to be complaining about an old version of libcurl (?), but when I run curl -V in Terminal, it says I am using curl 7.19.7. Likewise, executing ipython --version shows that I'm using 2.0.0, the latest version of IPython. Am I misreading the error message? If so, what steps should I take to fix it?
Additional Errors
In addition to the error text I pasted above, it also printed the following:
INFO: Building Nettle
INFO: Attempting to Create directory /Users/peterrichter/.julia/v0.2/Nettle/deps/downloads
INFO: Directory /Users/peterrichter/.julia/v0.2/Nettle/deps/downloads already created
INFO: Downloading file http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/nettle-2.7.1.tar.gz
INFO: Done downloading file http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/nettle-2.7.1.tar.gz
INFO: Attempting to Create directory /Users/peterrichter/.julia/v0.2/Nettle/deps/src
INFO: Directory /Users/peterrichter/.julia/v0.2/Nettle/deps/src already created
INFO: Attempting to Create directory /Users/peterrichter/.julia/v0.2/Nettle/deps
INFO: Directory /Users/peterrichter/.julia/v0.2/Nettle/deps already created
INFO: Attempting to Create directory /Users/peterrichter/.julia/v0.2/Nettle/deps/src/nettle-2.7.1
INFO: Directory /Users/peterrichter/.julia/v0.2/Nettle/deps/src/nettle-2.7.1 already created
INFO: Attempting to Create directory /Users/peterrichter/.julia/v0.2/Nettle/deps/builds/nettle
INFO: Directory /Users/peterrichter/.julia/v0.2/Nettle/deps/builds/nettle already created
INFO: Changing Directory to /Users/peterrichter/.julia/v0.2/Nettle/deps/builds/nettle
checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0
checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0
checking for -R flag... none
Searching for libraries
checking /Users/peterrichter/.julia/v0.2/Nettle/deps/usr/lib... not found
checking /usr/local/lib... added
checking /sw/local/lib... not found
checking /sw/lib... not found
checking /usr/gnu/lib... not found
checking /opt/gnu/lib... not found
checking /sw/gnu/lib... not found
checking /usr/freeware/lib... not found
checking /usr/pkg/lib... not found
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in `/Users/peterrichter/.julia/v0.2/Nettle/deps/builds/nettle':
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details
===============================[ ERROR: Nettle ]================================
failed process: Process(`/Users/peterrichter/.julia/v0.2/Nettle/deps/src/nettle-2.7.1/configure --disable-openssl --libdir=/Users/peterrichter/.julia/v0.2/Nettle/deps/usr/lib --prefix=/Users/peterrichter/.julia/v0.2/Nettle/deps/usr`, ProcessExited(77)) [77]
at /Users/peterrichter/.julia/v0.2/Nettle/deps/build.jl:35
================================================================================
INFO: Building ZMQ
INFO: Building IJulia
Found IPython version 2.0.0 ... ok.
Creating julia profile in IPython...
(Existing KernelManager.kernel_cmd setting in ipython_config.py is untouched.)
(Existing IPythonWidget.execute_on_complete_input setting in ipython_qtconsole_config.py is untouched.)
(Existing FrontendWidget.lexer_class setting in ipython_qtconsole_config.py is untouched.)
(Existing NotebookApp.port setting in ipython_notebook_config.py is untouched.)
(Existing ipynblogo.png file untouched.)
(Existing ipynblogo.svg file untouched.)
(Existing favicon.ico file untouched.)
(Existing custom.js file untouched.)
(Existing julia.js file untouched.)
================================[ BUILD ERRORS ]================================
WARNING: Homebrew and Nettle had build errors.
- packages with build errors remain installed in /Users/peterrichter/.julia/v0.2
- build a package and all its dependencies with `Pkg.build(pkg)`
- build a single package by running its `deps/build.jl` script
================================================================================
It looks like you don't have a C compiler installed so the Pkg.add is failing on some of IJulia's nettle dependency.
Your first errors dependency though looks like it's a linking conflict between the bundled git implementation for your julia distribution and the system provided library.
You can see exactly what shared library the git app is using with otool.
otool -L /Applications/Julia-0.2.1.app/Contents/Resources/julia/libexec/git-core/git-remote-https
This should list the full path of the libcurl dylib that the git-remote-https binary is linking to.
You can compare that against the output for otool -L $(which curl) and see if they are linking to the same library.
You can also run otool -L on the referenced libraries themselves to see what versions they are. This should at least tell you what the conflict is. It's possible that you will need to upgrade the git version that your julia distribution uses. But I'm not sure what would be involved there. I just install julia from source which bypasses this particular problem.
You might find it easier to do the same.
What worked for me might be of help to you:
Using latest Anaconda free python, download windows32 exe file from github and extract, start julia.bat, then in the Julia command window type Pkg.add("IJulia"), In another command window type
ipython notebook --profile=julia and enjoy the webpage that opens in your default browser(Chrome)!!
I had trouble because of the syntax of the --profile=julia command part.
I too use macports and not Homebrew.
I seem to have fixed this by changing lines 21,22 in ~/.julia/v0.3/Nettle/deps/build.jl to:
libdirs = String["$(julia_usrdir)/lib"; "/opt/local/lib"]
includedirs = String["$(julia_usrdir)/include"; "/opt/local/include"]
i.e. I added the macports lib and include dirs explicitly.
Can someone please notify the appropriate authorities, cheers.

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

After upgrading Mac OS X to newest version Mavericks, I attempted to selfupdate my Macports, but it failed:
$ sudo port -v selfupdate
---> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
receiving file list ... done
sent 36 bytes received 69 bytes 210.00 bytes/sec
total size is 4925440 speedup is 46908.95
receiving file list ... done
sent 36 bytes received 76 bytes 74.67 bytes/sec
total size is 512 speedup is 4.57
MacPorts base version 2.2.0 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.2.1 downloaded.
---> Updating the ports tree
Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/ports.tar
receiving file list ... done
sent 36 bytes received 70 bytes 70.67 bytes/sec
total size is 57702400 speedup is 544362.26
receiving file list ... done
sent 36 bytes received 77 bytes 75.33 bytes/sec
total size is 512 speedup is 4.53
receiving file list ... rsync: change_dir "tarballs/PortIndex_darwin_13_i386" (in release) failed: No such file or directory (2)
done
sent 4 bytes received 9 bytes 26.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-42/rsync/main.c(1400) [receiver=2.6.9]
Command failed: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/PortIndex_darwin_13_i386/PortIndex /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs
Exit code: 23
---> MacPorts base is outdated, installing new version 2.2.1
Installing new MacPorts release in /opt/local as root:admin; permissions 0755; Tcl-Package in /Library/Tcl
checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0
checking host system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0
checking target system type... x86_64-apple-darwin13.0.0
checking MacPorts version... 2.2.1
checking for sw_vers... /usr/bin/sw_vers
checking for defaults... /usr/bin/defaults
checking for xcode-select... /usr/bin/xcode-select
checking Mac OS X version... 10.9
checking Xcode location... /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
checking Xcode version... 5.0.1
checking for gcc... /usr/bin/cc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
<snip>
checking CommonCrypto/CommonDigest.h presence... yes
checking for CommonCrypto/CommonDigest.h... yes
checking for readline in -lreadline... yes
checking whether rl_username_completion_function is declared... no
checking whether rl_filename_completion_function is declared... yes
checking whether rl_completion_matches is declared... yes
checking whether username_completion_function is declared... yes
checking whether filename_completion_function is declared... yes
checking whether completion_matches is declared... yes
checking for Tcl configuration... configure: error: Can't find Tcl configuration definitions
Command failed: cd /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/tarballs/base && CC=/usr/bin/cc OBJC=/usr/bin/cc ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-tclpackage=/Library/Tcl --with-install-user=root --with-install-group=admin --with-directory-mode=0755 --enable-readline && make SELFUPDATING=1 && make install SELFUPDATING=1
Exit code: 1
Error: Error installing new MacPorts base: command execution failed
To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new MacPorts base: command execution failed
$
If I just try to upgrade a particular port, it failed too:
$ sudo port upgrade emacsapp
Password:
Warning: port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider updating them by running 'port selfupdate'.
Error: emacsapp is not installed
$ sudo port search emacs
Password:
Warning: port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider updating them by running 'port selfupdate'.
$ sudo port upgrade emacs-app
Warning: port definitions are more than two weeks old, consider updating them by running 'port selfupdate'.
---> Fetching archive for gperf
---> Attempting to fetch gperf-3.0.4_2.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2 from http://packages.macports.org/gperf
---> Attempting to fetch gperf-3.0.4_2.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2 from http://lil.fr.packages.macports.org/gperf
---> Attempting to fetch gperf-3.0.4_2.darwin_13.x86_64.tbz2 from http://mse.uk.packages.macports.org/sites/packages.macports.org/gperf
---> Fetching distfiles for gperf
---> Attempting to fetch gperf-3.0.4.tar.gz from http://ykf.ca.distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/mpdistfiles/gperf
---> Verifying checksums for gperf
---> Extracting gperf
Error: org.macports.extract for port gperf returned: command execution failed
Please see the log file for port gperf for details:
/opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_gperf/gperf/main.log
Error: Problem while installing gperf
To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
$
Any idea
if this is caused by incompatibility between OS X Mavericks and Macports?
how to fix it?
Edit:
I tried a different computer upgrading it from 10.8.5 to 10.9, and then try to do selfupdate for macports, it did not work again but gave a different error:
$ sudo port -v selfupdate
---> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
receiving file list ... done
base.tar
sent 13396 bytes received 10355 bytes 15834.00 bytes/sec
total size is 4925440 speedup is 207.38
receiving file list ... done
base.tar.rmd160
sent 64 bytes received 635 bytes 1398.00 bytes/sec
total size is 512 speedup is 0.73
MacPorts base version 2.2.1 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.2.1 downloaded.
---> Updating the ports tree
Synchronizing local ports tree from file:///opt/local/var/macports/sources/svn.macports.org/trunk/dports/
svn: E155036: Please see the 'svn upgrade' command
svn: E155036: Working copy '/opt/local/var/macports/sources/svn.macports.org/trunk/dports' is too old (format 10, created by Subversion 1.6)
Command failed: /usr/bin/svn update --non-interactive /opt/local/var/macports/sources/svn.macports.org/trunk/dports
Exit code: 1
Error: Synchronization of the local ports tree failed doing an svn update
Error: Couldn't sync the ports tree: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed
To report a bug, follow the instructions in the guide:
http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Couldn't sync the ports tree: Synchronization of 1 source(s) failed
Install the "Command Line Tools" first:
sudo xcode-select --install
(Explicitly agreeing to the license is sometimes necessary via "sudo xcodebuild -license")
Then upgrade the ports:
sudo port -v selfupdate
I answered a similar question. The location of the Tcl framework has changed, breaking the existing MacPorts infrastructure. The 2.2.1 installer for Mavericks has since become available here. Make a list of your installed ports, and consider deleting /opt/local prior to installing. You will likely need to 'update' everything anyway.
There might be a chance that you haven't agreed with the XCode license.
If xcode-install doesn't help, you can run the belowing command to agree with Xcode license.
sudo xcodebuild -license
there is an actual bug with
gperf #3.0.4: error: expected parameter declarator
thankfully this issue has its own ticket at MacPorts ticket 40918
if anything you could read all the issues in Mavericks at http://trac.macports.org/wiki/MavericksProblems
I had the same issue. I am assuming that you had Xcode command line utils installed previously. Just launch XCODE and let it finish configuration. Now rerun port command and it should work properly.
I got an error with selfupdate, and resolved it by doing a fresh installation of MacPorts from http://www.macports.org/install.php. Now I can run the selfupdate command without error and install other ports.
The error I were seeing was below, it seems the same problem as Yo Sophia has pointed out:
$ sudo port selfupdate
Password:
---> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
MacPorts base version 2.1.3 installed,
MacPorts base version 2.2.1 downloaded.
---> Updating the ports tree
---> MacPorts base is outdated, installing new version 2.2.1
Installing new MacPorts release in /opt/local as root:admin; permissions 0755; Tcl-Package in /Library/Tcl
Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error installing new MacPorts base: command execution failed
I mainly wanted to comment on #Brett's answer above (sorry, SO n00b still, not allowed) and share my experience upgrading... not really a new answer, but hopefully some useful info.
I downloaded and installed the Mavericks MacPorts installer as described above, (but without removing /opt, as suggested by #King Julian did self update which was fine, and then upgrade outdated and it seems to be uninstalling and reinstalling all my ports with a message:
Warning: Deactivate forced. Proceeding despite dependencies.
on each one. Luckily i made a copy of the etc and apache2/conf dirs, so should be able to get my config back when it eventually finishes... after 30 minutes or so it threw an error
Unable to open port: extra characters after close-quote
So i did self update again and upgrade outdated seems to run again...
So looks like it can be done (LAMP all working anyway) - it might have been quicker to start again from scratch, but make sure you have at least a couple of hours spare for this (and be connected to mains power ;)
Apologies if too much info, but hope it helps!
The problem seems to be with Macports and the location of the Tcl framework and it's path once Xcode has been installed. I suggest installing a fresh version of Macports for Mavericks here : http://www.macports.org/install.php.
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:-
--- snip ---
...
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.

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