parted-1.6.20 fails to build with the (old) gettext-0.11.5 installed. "emerge parted" spits out the following error: Making all in po make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/parted-1.6.20/work/parted-1.6.20/po' make[2]: *** No rule to make target `@POMAKEFILEDEPS@', needed by `Makefile'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/parted-1.6.20/work/parted-1.6.20/po' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/parted-1.6.20/work/parted-1.6.20' make: *** [all] Error 2 Emergeing a later version of gettext solves the problem: gettext-0.12.1-r2 and higher (0.14.1 at the present time) is sufficient. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: (gettext 0.11.5 is no longer in portage so it's extra work to reproduce this) If you really want it, here's the output from emerge --info: Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 x86_64 12 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.3-r1 [2.3.3 (#1, Jun 30 2004, 22:24:32)] distcc 2.13 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.3-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r3 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.2-r5 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo/ ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://linux.thai.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X dga divx4linux dvd f77 fftw gtk2 imap jpeg mozilla mpeg nptl opengl spell truetype xv xvid" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
added gettext >= version to .20 and .22 ebuilds