Error in macports upgrade build

[Rainer Müller]

Kok-Yong Tan wrote:
> 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

Very strange error. Building libxslt works fine for me.

> 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)?

MacPorts uses Portfiles as described in our guide [1].
You can find it with the command 'port file libxslt'.

I can't find anything wrong in the Portfile which could cause such an 
error on upgrading.

Rainer

[1] http://guide.macports.org/#development.introduction