Error building cyrus-sasl2 on snow leopard

[denro03@…]

were running a 'sudo port upgrade --force installed' to upgrade all macport packages after a snow leopard upgrade

encountered this problem:

--->  Computing dependencies for cyrus-sasl2
--->  Building cyrus-sasl2
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_security_cyrus-sasl2/work/cyrus-sasl-2.1.23" && /usr/bin/make -j2 all " returned error 2
Command output:       _main in saslpasswd.o
  "_prop_dispose", referenced from:
      _main in saslpasswd.o
  "_sasl_errstring", referenced from:
      _exit_sasl in saslpasswd.o
  "_prop_request", referenced from:
      _main in saslpasswd.o
  "_sasl_dispose", referenced from:
      _main in saslpasswd.o
  "_sasl_done", referenced from:
      _main in saslpasswd.o
  "_sasl_server_init", referenced from:
      _main in saslpasswd.o
  "_prop_new", referenced from:
      _main in saslpasswd.o
  "_sasl_setpass", referenced from:
      _main in saslpasswd.o
  "_sasl_auxprop_store", referenced from:
      _main in saslpasswd.o
  "_sasl_server_new", referenced from:
      _main in saslpasswd.o
  "_sasl_version", referenced from:
      _main in saslpasswd.o
ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [dbconverter-2] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: *** [saslpasswd2] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1

[tobypeterson]

dupe of #20194 (there's a workaround)