libglade2 fails to install with an xmlcatalog error?

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:26:16PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt said:
> On one of my systems I got:
> 
> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: shell command  
> "xmlcatalog --noout --add system http://glade.gnome.org/ 
> glade-2.0.dtd /mp/share/xml/libglade/glade-2.0.dtd /mp/etc/xml/ 
> catalog" returned error 2
> Command output: could not open /mp/etc/xml/catalog for saving
> add command failed
> 
> /mp is my MacPorts prefix. There is a directory /mp/etc but no  
> directory /mp/etc/xml.
> 

If creating the ${prefix}/etc/xml directory gets this to work, perhaps
libxml2 (which provides xmlcatalog) should install that directory?

Bryan


> 
> On Sep 30, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Scott C. Kennedy wrote:
> 
> > Apart from a single person with a "me too", I haven't seen much  
> > traffic on this issue. Are other people having it? Or is it a  
> > weirdness with my environment?
> >
> > Scott
> >
> > Scott C. Kennedy wrote:
> >>
> >> I noticed during this week's selfupdate that there was a bunch of  
> >> things that got released, so I just did an uninstall of 2.6.2 and  
> >> an install of 2.6.3 of libglade2 and got this error...
> >> Biko-2:~ sck$ sudo port install libglade2
> >> --->  Fetching libglade2
> >> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for libglade2
> >> --->  Extracting libglade2
> >> --->  Configuring libglade2
> >> --->  Building libglade2 with target all
> >> --->  Staging libglade2 into destroot
> >> --->  Installing libglade2 2.6.3_0
> >> --->  Activating libglade2 2.6.3_0
> >> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: shell command  
> >> "xmlcatalog --noout --add system http://glade.gnome.org/ 
> >> glade-2.0.dtd/opt/local/share/xml/libglade/glade-2.0.dtd /opt/ 
> >> local/etc/xml/catalog" returned error 3
> >> Command output: add command failed
>