As Benjamin said, this was failing on non-universal framework builds and
just a regular build because '-lintl' was not getting added to LIBS in
configure.in and LIBS was not being passed into the framework compile
rule (for both universal and non-universal).

As for my copy of libintl.dylib, 'file' says::

  /unix/macports/lib/libintl.dylib: Mach-O dynamically linked shared
library i386

From my reading of that it means gettext was not built as a universal
library (which I will go fix and so for other libraries I have through
MacPorts).

Ronald, can you look at the changes I proposed on Makefile.pre.in to
make sure LIBS from configure get used in the framework builds? If you
do then that change with the configure.in change I suggested should
solve all of this.