xorg-libXt won't build because xsltproc processes never finish

[Richard L. Hamilton]

> On Nov 19, 2017, at 17:55, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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> On Nov 19, 2017, at 14:26, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
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>> On Nov 19, 2017, at 14:35, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
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>>> On Nov 19, 2017, at 09:27, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
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>>>> Reinstalling after migrating to High Sierra, it had to be that something wouldn't rebuild, and this was it.  xorg-libXt won't build because the xsltproc processes never finish.  For giggles, I temporarily swapped the one already in /opt/local/bin  with the somewhat older binary supplied by Apple, and it did the same...leading me to suppose that although they perhaps shouldn't behave that way, it's something in the input they're fed that has them running indefinitely (and using all the CPU they can get while they're doing it, too).
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>>>> Ideas?
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>>> Hmm, not really. xorg-libXt built fine on High Sierra on our build system in September. https://packages.macports.org/xorg-libXt/ (You cannot use our binaries?)
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>> Don't I need a build with +flat_namespace if I'm going to link with OpenMotif?
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> Yes, that's true. But I wouldn't expect using that variant to cause this problem. 
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> Are you able to install the port without that variant if you build from source (i.e. use the "-s" flag), or do you get the same hang then?

I wasn't.  But I uninstalled all the ports and started over; and this time, it got past that successfully and is still going.  Something I changed in between must have made a difference.  Not sure what, although I had turned off the Sophos on-access scanning, since that considerably slows a rebuild of so many ports.  Could have been something else, though.  Crossing fingers that it keeps going, with nothing more that requires so many steps back to keeping going forward. :-)