help2man installation fail leads to Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1

[ironforge@…]

--->  Fetching gettext
--->  Attempting to fetch gettext-0.18.1.1.tar.gz from http://lil.fr.distfiles.macports.org/gettext
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for gettext
--->  Extracting gettext
--->  Applying patches to gettext
--->  Configuring gettext
--->  Building gettext
--->  Staging gettext into destroot
--->  Computing dependencies for gettext
--->  Installing gettext @0.18.1.1_2
--->  Deactivating gettext @0.17_4
--->  Activating gettext @0.18.1.1_2
--->  Cleaning gettext
--->  Computing dependencies for p5-locale-gettext
--->  Fetching p5-locale-gettext
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for p5-locale-gettext
--->  Extracting p5-locale-gettext
--->  Applying patches to p5-locale-gettext
--->  Configuring p5-locale-gettext
--->  Building p5-locale-gettext
--->  Staging p5-locale-gettext into destroot
--->  Computing dependencies for p5-locale-gettext
--->  Installing p5-locale-gettext @1.05_3
--->  Deactivating p5-locale-gettext @1.05_0
--->  Activating p5-locale-gettext @1.05_3
--->  Cleaning p5-locale-gettext
--->  Computing dependencies for help2man
--->  Fetching help2man
--->  Attempting to fetch help2man-1.38.2.tar.gz from http://lil.fr.distfiles.macports.org/help2man
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for help2man
--->  Extracting help2man
--->  Configuring help2man
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command failed (see log for details)
Log for help2man is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_textproc_help2man/main.log
Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>
Server:MacPorts-1.9.2 malte$ tail /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_textproc_help2man/main.log
:info:configure checking for library containing dlsym... none required
:info:configure checking for library containing bindtextdomain... -lintl
:info:configure configure: error: perl module Locale::gettext required
:info:configure shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_textproc_help2man/work/help2man-1.38.2" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --enable-nls " returned error 1
:error:configure Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command failed (see log for details)
:debug:configure Backtrace: configure failure: shell command failed (see log for details)
    while executing
"$procedure $targetname"
:info:configure Warning: the following items did not execute (for help2man): org.macports.destroot org.macports.configure org.macports.build
:notice:configure Log for help2man is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_textproc_help2man/main.log

Found this thread and tried this to no avail:

sudo port -f uninstall p5-locale-gettext
sudo port install p5-locale-gettext
sudo port install help2man

Any idea?

[ironforge@…]

Perhaps I should add that I recently upgraded to 10.6.6.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Duplicate of #27932.

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

That's this ticket.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Let's try that again: duplicate of #27457.