Kurt,

I will not be able to help.  I do have this additional information and questions though.

I ran the install command and it fails for me at xmlto - I have this problem from an earlier install.   I wonder if my issue is because I am on intel.
 G5Q:khillig > sudo port install -f evince
 --->  Fetching evince
 --->  Verifying checksum(s) for evince
 --->  Extracting evince
 --->  Configuring evince
 --->  Building evince with target all
 Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd
 "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_gnome_evince/work/evince-2.21.1"
 && make all " returned error 2
  
My questions are:
what version of xmlto do you have installed?
what version of xcode are you using?  I have found that older versions (<2.4)  have issues with compiling some ports.

Good luck.

Michael