amd64/177760: circular dependency with libiconv/gettext

[Will Foster (sadsfae)]

>Number:         177760
>Category:       amd64
>Synopsis:       circular dependency with libiconv/gettext
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Apr 10 18:30:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Will Foster (sadsfae)
>Release:        9.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD hobohouse.XXX.XXXXXX.com 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec  4 09:23:10 UTC 2012     root at farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>Description:
When following the UPDATING.txt instructions up to or prior to 20130316 (my ports were dated 2014-02-25) the following error occurs -after- removal of gettext and during the build of libiconv.

Shared object "libintl.so.9" not found, required by "sed" 

# pkg delete -f devel/gettext (goes ok)
# portmaster converters/libiconv devel/gettext (libiconv build fails to error above)

Because devel/gettext is removed the system is left unusable for many applications.  In my case I simply restored from ZFS root snapshot to troubleshoot various approaches with help from folks in the FreeBSD forums.

The only make config option set for converters/libiconv was [x] Encodings: Include extra character sets

Full details are here:
https://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=38970


>How-To-Repeat:
>From ports dated prior or up to 20130316 attempt to follow /usr/ports/UPDATING.txt instructions where libiconv now handles the lib/charset.alias file instead of devel/gettext:

# pkg delete -f devel/gettext
# portmaster converters/libiconv devel/gettext

Removal of devel/gettext port removes the library "/usr/local/lib/libintl.so.9" which is needed by sed during the build of libiconv.

>Fix:
To workaround this issue the following needs to be done:

# cp /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.9 /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.9.new
# pkg delete -f devel/gettext
# cp /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.9.new /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.9
# portmaster converters/libiconv devel/gettext

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