Error in macports upgrade build

[Joel Thibault (MacPorts)]

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Kok-Yong Tan ktan-at-realityartisans.comwrote:

> In the midsts of a "sudo port -vR upgrade installed" command on a dual
> 2GHz PowerMac G5 OS 10.4.11 system, it reported this error:
>
> Error: Target org.macports.checksum returned: Could not open file:
> /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt/libxslt-1.1.22.tar.gzWarning:
> the following items did not execute (for libxslt): org.macports.activate
> org.macports.extract org.macports.checksum org.macports.patch
> org.macports.configure org.macports.build org.macports.destroot
> org.macports.installError: The following dependencies failed to build:
> gtk-doc scrollkeeper libxslt p5-xml-parserError: Unable to upgrade port: 1
>
> I looked at /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/libxslt/ and
> libxslt-1.1.22.tar.gz is certainly there.  Why is there the extraneous
> additions of libxslt in the above absolute file path and how can I fix it
> (where's the makefile or whatever it uses)?
>
>
I have seen something like this before, and it seemed to be something funny
with the filesystem.  I was able to recover this way:

Delete /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/libxslt/
Run port selfupdate
Run port clean --all libxslt

Then I was able to go back to my upgrade.


-- 
Joel Thibault [AIM: Jole Tebo]
Software Engineer in Boston
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