gettext-tools configure error -

["Tim Noell" <tnoell%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi pkgsrc-users:

I am trying to upgrade a pkgsrc tree and am running info a configure error in devel/gettext-tools (details below).  I searched the archives and saw some chatter about it, but either the stuff I found doesn't apply, or I don't understand the issue well enough to know that I am staring at the answer ( my apologies if this is the case ... :/ )     Same for the few results that Google turned up.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.  Currently, I am somewhat stuck ...

Here are the gory details:

Host:  Red Hat Enterprise Workstation 4 Release 6 (RHEL4u6)
pkgsrc metadata as of 1/2/2008
mk.conf
 says:  PREFER_PKGSRC=yes  (take pkgsrc over host for all dependencies where possible)
and there are no package specific overrides of this global setting

Here's the configure error:
===> Configuring for 
gettext-tools-0.14.6nb1
...
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for autoconf-lib-link
*** Error code 1
...

And the pertinent (AFAIK) stuff from src/gettext-tools/work/gettext-0.14.6/autoconf-lib-link/config.log:
...
configure:2292: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:2295: gcc -O2 -I/users/tnoell/work/pkg_012008/ix86-Linux-RHEL4/include -I/users/tnoell/work/pkg_012008/ix86-Linux-RHEL4/include -L/users/tnoell/work/pkg_012008/ix86-Linux-RHEL4/lib -Wl,-R/users/tnoell/work/pkg_012008/ix86-Linux-RHEL4/lib 
conftest.c -lintl -liconv >&5
/users/tnoell/work/pkg_012008/src/devel/gettext-tools/work.titan/.buildlink/lib/libintl.so: undefined reference to `locale_charset'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:2298: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h.  */
| 
| #define PACKAGE_NAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME ""
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION ""
| #define PACKAGE_STRING ""
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #define PACKAGE "autoconf-lib-link"
| #define VERSION "0.14.6"
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| 
| int
| main ()
| {
| 
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:2337: error: C compiler cannot create executables
...

As near as I can tell, locale_charset should come from 
$LOCALBASE/lib/libcharset.so (which is there, and has a symbol "locale_charset" in it)
but for some reason, libintl.so doesn't say that it needs libcharset.so (per ldd/readelf output).    -lcharset is not on the link command line for this test app, so of course, this test program fails.

Is this a known issue, am I missing a patch, etc?

Rather than fixing this in gettext-tools, I'm thinking libintl.so (from devel/gettext-lib package) got built incorrectly and should list libcharset.so as a NEEDED shared library, so that client apps don't need to know to include -lcharset on their linker lines.   I grepped around in gettext-lib but didn't see any settings for this ...
How/where would I fix this?  Or is there a better place to fix it?  Or am I all washed up?

If anyone can send a patch or give me a hint on how/where to fix this, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thx,
Tim Noell
tnoell%gmail.com@localhost

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