On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:36:24AM +0000, Dan Stowell said: > Hi all - > > This is a solved problem, just letting people know for future > reference, and maybe maintainers want to tweak portfiles somehow. > > I just tried to install libglade2 and got an error during activation: [...] > Command output: could not open /opt/local/etc/xml/catalog for saving > > Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. > > > This was because /opt/local/etc/xml didn't exist. After reading a > tangentially-related message... > <http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2007-June/003873.html> > ...I checked my libxml2 and libxslt and they were fairly old versions: > > libxml2 2.6.30_0 < 2.7.2_0 > libxslt 1.1.15_0 < 1.1.24_0
libxml2 was updated in r40663 [1] to create/own the etc/xml directory for this very reason. > > I upgraded my lixml2 and libxslt and that allowed libglade2 to install > correctly. I wonder if libglade2's dependencies need to include this > knowledge somehow. Note that libglade2 has a dependency on libxml2, though if you were doing a new install of libglade2, port won't upgrade dependencies first. Bryan [1] - <http://trac.macports.org/changeset/40663> > > Dan > > -- > http://www.mcld.co.uk _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
