cannot upgrade help2man

[colm.connolly@…]

I installed macports 1.8.0 this morning (snow leopard 10.6.0 with Xcode 3.2 from the sn dvd) and then ran

sudo port upgrade installed

but the command failed when trying to upgrade help2man-1.36.4 with the following error

> sudo port upgrade installed
--->  Computing dependencies for help2man
--->  Configuring help2man
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_textproc_help2man/work/help2man-1.36.4" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --mandir=/opt/local/share/man --infodir=/opt/local/share/info " returned error 1
Command output: checking for perl... /opt/local/bin/perl
checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc-4.2
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 accepts -g... yes
checking for /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for library containing dlsym... none required
checking for module Locale::gettext... no
configure: error: perl module Locale::gettext required

Error: Problem while installing help2man

I reran this with the -dv switched and noticed errors related to a perl5 dependency.
If perl5 is a dep of help2man should it not be installed before trying to upgrade
help2man? I've attached the output of the port -dv command as it's a bit long to
cut'n'paste here.

[toby@…]

I'd assume perl *is* installed, but you neglected to read Migration ...

[toby@…]

dupe of #21069