[MacPorts] #54026: readline upgrade breaks various ports

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#54026: readline upgrade breaks various ports
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  Reporter:  jimjag    |      Owner:  MarcusCalhoun-Lopez
      Type:  defect    |     Status:  reopened
  Priority:  Normal    |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports     |    Version:
Resolution:            |   Keywords:
      Port:  readline  |
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Comment (by sambthompson):

 Replying to [comment:12 SickTeddyBear]:
 > Replying to [comment:11 jjstickel]:
 > > Replying to [comment:10 jjstickel]:
 > > > Log from the build of emacs +x11:
 > > > {{{
 > > > :info:configure configure: creating ./config.status
 > > > :info:configure config.status: creating ./doc/man/emacs.1
 > > > :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
 > > > }}}
 > > > Not sure if this means emacs port needs to be fixed, or just gawk.
 > >
 > > Upgrading gawk to 4.1.4_3 first resolved the emacs installation
 problem.
 >
 > That worked for me, too. I had 30+ broken ports that would fail during
 configure, but upgrading gawk first allowed rev-upgrade to rebuild the
 rest of them.

 Ditto. Found this issue via trying to upgrade via "outdated" metaport.
 Broke on ImageMagick, then detected broken ports, failing on gd2. Explicit
 `port upgrade gawk` allowed me to proceed to `port upgrade outdated`.
 Thanks for the workaround!

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/54026#comment:14>
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