Now you can manually install giflib (if you want to be able to export GIF files) which is too old in macport: Download giflib sources at this url:

   https://sourceforge.net/projects/giflib/

and put the file in your home directory

   tar -jxvf giflib-5.1.2.tar.bz2
   cd giflib-5.1.2
   ./configure
   make
   sudo make install