A port that I had successfuly built on April 19th by setting option for it to pass '-static-libtool-libs' to libtool. And, had also worked when I had it pass '-all-static' to libtool. Would no longer build using either option while catching up on port updates on another server. After much investigation, it appears the change to how libFOO.la files are saved on April 23rd is the culprit. When the libtool encounters '/usr/local/lib/libxml2.la' it is able to determine that the static library to link is /usr/local/lib/libxml2.a, but it doesn't know what that there are dependency libraries for this library. Specifically, it doesn't know that it needs to consult /usr/local/lib/libiconv.la. As the link is failing due to unresolved libiconv related symbols in libxml2.a. Locating the file in workdir and adding the missing dependencies, enables the build to succeed.
To which port does this PR apply?
There was no response after two weeks, we can't do anything with the description as written.