unable to compile libxml2 with Xcode 4.4

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 18, 2012, at 08:53, Artemio Gonzalez Lopez wrote:

> Although many ports I've tried work well with XCode 4.4 -- Mountain Lion, I ran into a problem with libxml2. I understand that the main effort now is with Xcode 4.3, but any help or suggestion will be appreciated. The error log is as follows:

> Error: reinplace: sed: RE error: illegal byte sequence
> Error: Target org.macports.extract returned: reinplace sed(1) failed

jeremyhu committed some changes to sed and locale handling recently, both in base and in some ports individually, which I now presume was because of errors like this. What version of MacPorts? If 2.0.3, build from the latest trunk and try again.