MacPorts failing to upgrade gettext with +with_default_names

MacPort 1.7.1 breaks itself when trying to upgrade from gettext 0.17_3 to 0.17_4 when coreutils are installed with +with_default_names, here's how to fix it.

First off, the symptom will be:

--->  Deactivating gettext @0.17_3
dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libintl.8.dylib
  Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/rm
  Reason: image not found
Error: Deactivating gettext 0.17_3 failed: 0
Error: Unable to upgrade port: dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libintl.8.dylib
  Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/ln
  Reason: image not found
Error: Unable to upgrade port: dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libintl.8.dylib
  Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/ln
  Reason: image not found
Error: Unable to upgrade port: dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libintl.8.dylib
  Referenced from: /opt/local/bin/ln
  Reason: image not found

A thread on macports-users explains how to fix this:

1. Edit /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf and add this line at the end of the file:
   binpath /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin


2. port deactivate gettext


3. port install gettext


4. Remove the line you added in step 1.


5. Re-run the initial command you were running to resume the upgrade of whatever you were upgrading.

Ryan Schmidt said that he was considering to remove +with_default_names but I disagree with his statement that "it's probably not good to override those default Mac OS X utilities". The GNU coreutils are vastly superior to the BSD ones and what's the point of installing them without +with_default_names? Having to prefix almost every single command with `g' is a waste of time.