pkgconfig activation failure

[wainwright_steve@…]

It seems my system with it's present settings is unable to install gtk2

sudo port install gtk2 +x11 +universal does install the following:
The following ports are currently installed:
  autoconf @2.65_1 (active)
  automake @1.11.1_0+universal (active)
  expat @2.0.1_0+universal (active)
  gettext @0.17_4+universal (active)
  gperf @3.0.4_0+universal (active)
  help2man @1.37.1_1+universal (active)
  libiconv @1.13.1_0+universal (active)
  libtool @2.2.6b_1+darwin+universal (active)
  m4 @1.4.14_0+universal (active)
  ncurses @5.7_0+darwin_10+universal (active)
  ncursesw @5.7_0+darwin_10+universal (active)
  p5-locale-gettext @1.05_2+universal (active)
  perl5 @5.8.9_0 (active)
  perl5.8 @5.8.9_3+universal (active)
  pkgconfig @0.23_1+universal

however finally fails. Where am I going wrong? I've uninstalled all ports and tried to reinstall to no avail. XCode 3.2.1 and X11(XQuartz 2.3.4 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple45)) are installed on my system.

--->  Computing dependencies for gtk2
--->  Activating pkgconfig @0.23_1+universal
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: atk glib2 pkgconfig gtk-doc docbook-xml docbook-xml-4.1.2 xmlcatmgr docbook-xml-4.2 docbook-xml-4.3 docbook-xml-4.4 docbook-xml-4.5 docbook-xml-5.0 docbook-xsl gnome-doc-utils iso-codes libxslt libxml2 zlib p5-xml-parser py26-libxml2 python26 bzip2 db46 gdbm openssl readline sqlite3 tk Xft2 fontconfig freetype xrender xorg-libX11 xorg-bigreqsproto xorg-inputproto xorg-kbproto xorg-libXau xorg-xproto xorg-libXdmcp xorg-util-macros xorg-xcmiscproto xorg-xextproto xorg-xf86bigfontproto xorg-xtrans xorg-renderproto tcl xorg-libXScrnSaver xorg-libXext xorg-scrnsaverproto rarian getopt intltool gnome-common p5-getopt-long p5-pathtools p5-scalar-list-utils cairo libpixman libpng jasper jpeg pango shared-mime-info tiff xorg-libXcomposite xorg-compositeproto xorg-libXfixes xorg-fixesproto xorg-libXcursor xorg-libXdamage xorg-damageproto xorg-libXi xorg-libXinerama xorg-xineramaproto xorg-libXrandr xorg-randrproto
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
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[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Please remember to preview and use WikiFormatting, fill in the Port field, and cc the maintainer.

While it's probably not related to this problem, you should run selfupdate to get the current version of MacPorts.

[wainwright_steve@…]

Replying to jmr@…:

Please remember to preview and use WikiFormatting, fill in the Port field, and cc the maintainer.

While it's probably not related to this problem, you should run selfupdate to get the current version of MacPorts.

sudo port install pkgconfig installs on my system. So why has my subject title been changed? Selfupdate has been done many times

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The log you provided shows pkgconfig could not activate. Therefore Joshua changed the title of the ticket to indicate that.

Activation failures have been occurring so frequently lately for no discernible reason, I'm going to write up a FAQ entry or something.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

And Joshua suggested you run selfupdate because you indicated you were using MacPorts 1.8.0 while MacPorts 1.8.2 was released at the beginning of the year.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

The error reporting for this case was fixed in r64007. Reopen if you can still reproduce and the error output shows that there's actually a bug (as opposed to there being conflicting files in the way or something).