gawk broken due to linking with libreadline.6.dylib

[trog24 (Frank J. R. Hanstick)]

From terminal:

--->  Attempting to fetch SDL2-2.0.10.tar.gz from https://distfiles.macports.org/libsdl2
--->  Verifying checksums for libsdl2                                                
--->  Extracting libsdl2
--->  Applying patches to libsdl2
--->  Configuring libsdl2
Error: Failed to configure libsdl2, consult /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_libsdl2/libsdl2/work/SDL2-2.0.10/config.log
Error: Failed to configure libsdl2: configure failure: command execution failed
Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_libsdl2/libsdl2/main.log for details.
Error: Follow https://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets to report a bug.

From main.log in /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_libsdl2/libsdl2:

:info:configure config.status: creating Makefile
:info:configure dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libreadline.6.dylib
:info:configure   Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/gawk
:info:configure   Reason: image not found
:info:configure sed: stdout: Broken pipe
:info:configure ./config.status: line 1453: 16677 Done(1)                 eval sed \"\$ac_sed_extra\" "$ac_file_inputs"
:info:configure      16678 Abort trap: 6           | $AWK -f "$ac_tmp/subs.awk" > $ac_tmp/out
:info:configure config.status: error: could not create Makefile
:info:configure Command failed:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_libsdl2/libsdl2/work/SDL2-2.0.10" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --x-includes=/opt/local/include --x-libraries=/opt/local/lib --disable-x11-shared 
:info:configure Exit code: 1
:error:configure Failed to configure libsdl2, consult /opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_libsdl2/libsdl2/work/SDL2-2.0.10/config.log
:error:configure Failed to configure libsdl2: configure failure: command execution failed
:debug:configure Error code: NONE
:debug:configure Backtrace: configure failure: command execution failed
:debug:configure     while executing
:debug:configure "$procedure $targetname"

The available libread versions in /opt/locallib are:

libreadline.8.0.dylib
libreadline.8.dylib
libreadline.a
libreadline.dylib

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

You need to upgrade gawk first. You must not have upgraded for years if gawk is still linked to libreadline 6. Duplicate of #58011, #54895 et al.