can't install gettext

[Andrew]

Thank you! That was it. I had even forgotten when/why/how I got that copy of /bin/gawk, but removing it solved it. 


--- On Sat, 11/8/08, Bryan Blackburn <blb at macports.org> wrote:

> From: Bryan Blackburn <blb at macports.org>
> Subject: Re: can't install gettext
> To: macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
> Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 12:48 AM
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 09:04:16PM -0800, Andrew said:
> > I recently installed MacPorts 1.6.0 via the package
> install and was able to do a port selfupdate. 
> > 
> > 
> > However, when I tried to install gettext, I get the
> following error:
> > 
> > sudo port -d -f install gettext
> > 
> > (... a bunch of messages available upon request...)
> > 
> > --->  Building ncursesw with target all
> [...]
> > gawk -f MKterm.h.awk ./Caps > term.h
> > dyld: Library not loaded:
> /opt/local/lib/libintl.8.dylib
> >   Referenced from: /bin/gawk
> >   Reason: image not found
> 
> Do you know where /bin/gawk came from?  Since it links to
> something in
> /opt/local, seems like it may have been copied from a
> MacPorts install into
> /bin, but MacPorts itself will not do anything in /usr or
> /bin like that.
> I'd suggest removing /bin/gawk, cleaning ncursesw (sudo
> port clean --work
> ncursesw) then trying again.
> 
> Also, make sure you don't have other bits in /bin,
> /sbin, /usr/bin, or
> /usr/sbin that may have been copied from other places.
> 
> Bryan
> 
> 
> [...]
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Andrew
> > 
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