p5.12-locale-gettext fails to build in new MacPorts tree

[posita (Matt Bogosian)]

I have a new non-root (user) installation of MacPorts 2.2.0 on OS X 10.6.8, which has just been selfupdated. Attempting to install ImageMagick barfed on its dependency on p5.12-locale-gettext.

.../p5.12-locale-gettext/main.log is attached. Here's the failing section:

...
:debug:configure Executing command line:  cd "[__MACPORTS_ROOT__]/var/macports/build/[__MACPORTS_ROOT__]var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_perl_p5-locale-gettext/p5.12-locale-gettext/work/gettext-1.05" && [__MACPORTS_ROOT__]/bin/perl5.12 Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor CC="/usr/bin/clang" LD="/usr/bin/clang" 
:info:configure checking for gettext... no
:info:configure checking for gettext in -lintl...gettext function not found. Please install libintl at Makefile.PL line 22.
:info:configure  no
:info:configure Command failed:  cd "[__MACPORTS_ROOT__]/var/macports/build/[__MACPORTS_ROOT__]var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_perl_p5-locale-gettext/p5.12-locale-gettext/work/gettext-1.05" && [__MACPORTS_ROOT__]/bin/perl5.12 Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor CC="/usr/bin/clang" LD="/usr/bin/clang" 
:info:configure Exit code: 2
...

Ports successfully installed before p5.12-locale-gettext failed:

% port list installed
expat                          @2.1.0          textproc/expat
gdbm                           @1.10           databases/gdbm
gettext                        @0.18.3.1       devel/gettext
gperf                          @3.0.4          devel/gperf
libiconv                       @1.14           textproc/libiconv
ncurses                        @5.9            devel/ncurses
perl5.12                       @5.12.4         lang/perl5.12

Cleaning and retrying still fails:

% port clean ImageMagick p5.12-locale-gettext
--->  Cleaning ImageMagick
--->  Cleaning p5.12-locale-gettext
% port install ImageMagick
--->  Computing dependencies for ImageMagick
--->  Dependencies to be installed: autoconf help2man p5.12-locale-gettext m4 perl5 xz automake bzip2 fftw-3 fontconfig freetype libpng zlib pkgconfig ghostscript jbig2dec jpeg lcms2 tiff libtool libidn libpaper xorg-libXext xorg-libX11 xorg-bigreqsproto xorg-inputproto xorg-kbproto xorg-libXau xorg-xproto xorg-libXdmcp xorg-libxcb python27 db46 db_select libedit openssl python_select sqlite3 xorg-libpthread-stubs xorg-xcb-proto libxml2 xorg-util-macros xorg-xcmiscproto xorg-xextproto xorg-xf86bigfontproto xorg-xtrans xorg-libXt xorg-libsm xorg-libice urw-fonts webp
--->  Fetching distfiles for p5.12-locale-gettext
--->  Verifying checksums for p5.12-locale-gettext
--->  Extracting p5.12-locale-gettext
--->  Applying patches to p5.12-locale-gettext
--->  Configuring p5.12-locale-gettext
Error: org.macports.configure for port p5.12-locale-gettext returned: configure failure: command execution failed
Error: Failed to install p5.12-locale-gettext
Please see the log file for port p5.12-locale-gettext for details:
    .../p5.12-locale-gettext/main.log
Error: The following dependencies were not installed: autoconf help2man p5.12-locale-gettext m4 perl5 xz automake bzip2 fftw-3 fontconfig freetype libpng zlib pkgconfig ghostscript jbig2dec jpeg lcms2 tiff libtool libidn libpaper xorg-libXext xorg-libX11 xorg-bigreqsproto xorg-inputproto xorg-kbproto xorg-libXau xorg-xproto xorg-libXdmcp xorg-libxcb python27 db46 db_select libedit openssl python_select sqlite3 xorg-libpthread-stubs xorg-xcb-proto libxml2 xorg-util-macros xorg-xcmiscproto xorg-xextproto xorg-xf86bigfontproto xorg-xtrans xorg-libXt xorg-libsm xorg-libice urw-fonts webp
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Error: Processing of port ImageMagick failed

FYI, MacPorts was originally installed with the following options to configure:

% ./configure \
    --prefix="${HOME}/.site" \
    --with-no-root-privileges \
    --with-install-user="$(id -un)" \
    --with-install-group="$(id -gn)" \
    --with-applications-dir="${HOME}/Applications/MacPorts" \
    --with-frameworks-dir="${HOME}/Library/Frameworks" \
    --with-directory-mode=2750

[posita (Matt Bogosian)]

.../p5.12-locale-gettext/main.log

[posita (Matt Bogosian)]

This looks like a similar issue has been presented before (see ticket #19381), but it has since been marked fixed. I have recently (i.e., within the past year-ish) built ImageMagick on Snow Leopard from MacPorts without issue. This appears to be relatively new.

(See also ​this (stackoverflow).)

[posita (Matt Bogosian)]

FYI, the work-around from ticket #36716 appears to work in my environment as well. I don't know if this is properly classified as a "fix" though....

For convenience, here's the work-around:

% port install p5.12-locale-gettext configure.compiler=gcc
... [works]
% port install ImageMagick [or whatever depends on p5.12-locale-gettext]
...

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Duplicate of #36716.

Note that port list doesn't do what you think it does.