On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 07:10:09PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I suspect this has something to do with using gnu gettext from pkgsrc
> rather than the in-tree gettext.  I rebuilt bash, which let me
> pkg_delete gettext-lib, and now I'll try to rebuild all the packages
> that have iconv in their .la.

That should work.
AFAICT, this problem happens when you have gettext-lib
and libiconv installed and build some particular packages,
but I don't know exactly why or how it happens. Removing
gettext-lib from the system completely and rebuilding as
you suggest should solve it.
 Thomas