xercesc: No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

[smithsm@…]

$ sudo port clean xercesc
Password:
--->  Cleaning xercesc
samuel@SiBook:$ sudo port install xercesc +universal
--->  Fetching xercesc
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for xercesc
--->  Extracting xercesc
--->  Applying patches to xercesc
--->  Configuring xercesc
--->  Building xercesc
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command failed (see log for details)
Log for xercesc is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_textproc_xercesc/main.log
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

from main.log

...
:info:build   (C++) XPathSymbols.o
:info:build toplevel Building /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_textproc_xercesc/work/xerces-c-src_2_8_0/lib/libxerces-c.28.0.dylib
:info:build /usr/bin/gnumake -C /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_textproc_xercesc/work/xerces-c-src_2_8_0/obj -k 
:info:build gnumake[1]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
:info:build gnumake: *** [/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_textproc_xercesc/work/xerces-c-src_2_8_0/lib/libxerces-c.28.0.dylib] Error 2
:info:build shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_textproc_xercesc/work/xerces-c-src_2_8_0-x86_64/src/xercesc" && /usr/bin/gnumake all " returned error 2
:error:build Target org.macports.build returned: shell command failed (see log for details)
:debug:build Backtrace: shell command failed (see log for details)
    while executing
"$procedure $targetname"
:info:build Warning: the following items did not execute (for xercesc): org.macports.activate org.macports.build org.macports.destroot org.macports.install
:notice:build Log for xercesc is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_textproc_xercesc/main.log

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Possibly a duplicate of #14396. Try without the universal variant.