requested report of 'port upgrade --force installed ' failure

[permezel@…]

Per request, 'port upgrade --force installed' failed.

Snow Lep, new ports dmg, attempting to upgrade.

--->  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: Unable to upgrade port: 1

[permezel@…]

this might be more readable.