gettext not compiling

[gilbert@…]

running on leopard 10.5.6 anything i compile that has libgrep fails. Eg compiling nemesis

bash-3.2# port install nemesis
--->  Building gettext
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_gettext/work/gettext-0.17" && make all " returned error 2
Command output: make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
Making all in po
Making all in man
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
Making all in m4
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
Making all in tests
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
Making all in gettext-tools
make  all-recursive
Making all in doc
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
Making all in intl
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
Making all in gnulib-lib
make  all-am
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
Making all in libgrep
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
Making all in src
make  all-am
/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link /usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -std=gnu99  -O2  -L/opt/local/lib -o msggrep msggrep-msggrep.o ../libgrep/libgrep.a libgettextsrc.la -Wl,-framework -Wl,CoreFoundation  
/usr/bin/gcc-4.0 -std=gnu99 -O2 -o .libs/msggrep msggrep-msggrep.o -Wl,-framework -Wl,CoreFoundation  -L/opt/local/lib ../libgrep/libgrep.a ./.libs/libgettextsrc.dylib /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_gettext/work/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools/gnulib-lib/.libs/libgettextlib.dylib -lncurses /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_gettext/work/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools/intl/.libs/libintl.dylib /opt/local/lib/libiconv.dylib -lc 
ld: in ../libgrep/libgrep.a, archive has no table of contents
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [msggrep] Error 1
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Error: The following dependencies failed to build: libnet libtool automake autoconf help2man gettext p5-locale-gettext perl5 perl5.8 m4
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

This is actually a problem with gettext.

[(none)]

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[tobypeterson]

cannot repro