MacPorts 1.4.1 released for self update

Dave Hill dave at hillcroft.org.uk
Tue Apr 17 02:56:22 PDT 2007


In article <C9053C8D-B55D-4023-96A4-066764CC1683 at macports.org>,
 James Berry <jberry at macports.org> wrote:

> Hi Dave,
> 
> On Apr 16, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Dave Hill wrote:
> 
> > In article 
> > <EF666B3B-1B9F-4C67-890A-92259A131643-/EBbbHb69GVg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.or
> > g>,
> >  James Berry <jberry at macports.org> wrote:
> >
> >> MacPorts 1.4.1 has been released for selfupdate. It should hit the
> >> rsync servers within an hour or so.
> >>
> >> If you already have macports installed, simply "sudo port
> >> selfupdate". If  you're doing a new install, install from the 1.4.0
> >> disk image, then do a selfupdate.
> >
> > Doesn't work on 10.3.9.
> >
> > "sudo port -v selfupdate" ends with:
> >
> > checking for xml2-config... /usr/bin/xml2-config
> > checking for libxml >= 2.6.11... 2.6.16
> > checking libxml/xmlwriter.h usability... no
> > checking libxml/xmlwriter.h presence... no
> > checking for libxml/xmlwriter.h... no
> > configure: error: Cannot build without libxml2
> > configure: error: ./configure failed for src/programs/xar
> >
> > It's picking up the xml2-config from the BSD package which points  
> > it at
> > /usr/include/libxml2/libxml - the contents of which come from the  
> > DevSDK
> > package and don't include xmlwriter.h
> >
> > If I temporarily rename xml2-config out of the way it doesn't find the
> > one from dports, it just says it can't find xml2-config at all.
> >
> > Do I still have a functioning 1.4.0 install or am I hosed?
> 
> Thanks for the report. Looks like we have problem building xar on  
> Panther, due to a libxml2 library that is too old on panther.

Hmm, this must be a new meaning of the phrase "too old" B-)

checking for libxml >= 2.6.11... 2.6.16

Dave

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