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After far too much time, this worked for me:

1. Download libiconv and install using:

   ./configure
   make
   sudo make install

2. Download glib2 and install using:

   CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -lintl" \
   ./configure --with-libiconv=gnu
   make
   sudo make install

3. Make sure pkg-config can find out about glib by typing:

   export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

4. Download mdb-tools 0.5 (I encoutered several bugs with 6.1pre) and install using:

   ./configure --disable-shared
       make
       sudo make install