Bugzilla Bug 131440

The usual source configure bug that sticks with many other packages too...
If system locale is set to et_EE, configure fails with "invalid package name"
error. Setting locale temporarely to en_US helps to get it compiled ofcourse...

>>> Source unpacked.
 * econf: updating links-2.1pre20/config.guess with
/usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess
 * econf: updating links-2.1pre20/config.sub with
/usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub
./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc
--localstatedir=/var/lib --without-x --with-libpng --with-libjpeg
--with-libtiff --without-svgalib --without-directfb --with-ssl --without-sdl
--disable-javascript --without-fb --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
configure: error: x: invalid package name

!!! ERROR: www-client/links-2.1_pre20 failed.
!!! Function econf, Line 495, Exitcode 0
!!! econf failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

emerge info
Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3,
2.6.16-gentoo-r3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo
/etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/
ftp://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/"
LANG="et_EE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="et_EE.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="et en"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 acl bash-completion bzip2 cdr cli crypt cups dbus expat foomaticdb
fortran gif gpm hal iconv imlib ipv6 jpeg ldap libwww mmap ncurses nls nptl pam
pcre perl png python readline slang slp snmp spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype
truetype-fonts udev unicode usb xml zlib linguas_et linguas_en userland_GNU
kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

fixed in cvs, cheers