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I am thoroughly confused: This afternoon I started setting up a new FreeBSD server. While doing that, I somehow broke bash on my FreeBSD workstation. Here's the error:

$ bash
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.6" not found, required by "bash"

To cut to the chase, I fixed this by forcing a gettext upgrade across my installed packages:

$ sudo pkg_add -r portupgrade
<...>
$ sudo portupgrade -rf gettext

So bash is working again. However, I have no idea why it broke. Indeed, libintl.so.6 was apparently AWOL:

$ ldd /usr/local/bin/bash
/usr/local/bin/bash:
      libreadline.so.6 => /lib/libreadline.so.6 (0x404db000)
      libhistory.so.6 => /usr/lib/libhistory.so.6 (0x40508000)
      libncurses.so.6 => /lib/libncurses.so.6 (0x4050f000)
      libintl.so.6 => not found (0x0)
      libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4054e000)

Or was it?

$ ls -l /usr/local/lib|grep libintl
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel    51150 Oct 12  2005 libintl.a
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel       12 Oct 12  2005 libintl.so -> libintl.so.6
-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel    40163 Oct 12  2005 libintl.so.6

These files were there unchanged before the gettext upgrade. How did I end up with a bash that couldn't see them?

The obvious scenario would be accidentally running some command on my workstation instead of the server I was setting up, but from the scrollback I can't see that I did that. I'm also not running any automatic port upgrades. What the heck did I do?!

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