While updating my system, I updated gettext to 0.14.1, and then tried binutils to 2.15.92.0.2, and received the errors below. This should be enough info I would say. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -u gettext 2. emerge -u binutils 3. Actual Results: make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.15.92.0.2/work/binutils-2.15.92.0.2/bfd/po' make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.15.92.0.2/work/binutils-2.15.92.0.2/bfd/po' file=./`echo fr | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH /usr/bin/gmsgfmt -o $file fr.po /usr/bin/gmsgfmt: error while loading shared libraries: libgettextlib-0.12.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory make[3]: *** [fr.gmo] Error 127 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.15.92.0.2/work/binutils-2.15.92.0.2/bfd/po' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.15.92.0.2/work/binutils-2.15.92.0.2/bfd' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.15.92.0.2/work/binutils-2.15.92.0.2/bfd' make: *** [all-bfd] Error 2 Expected Results: Successful Ebuild. Portage 2.0.51_rc7 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.8-ck8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-ck8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.22 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/fax /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.pacific.net.au/pub/Gentoo http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp ftp://gg3.net/pub/linux/gentoohttp://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/gentoo ftp://gentoo.agsn.ca/" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi aim alsa apm arts artswrappersuid avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl devfs26 dvd dvdr encode ethereal fam foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 icq imap imlib innodb ipv6 jabber java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mcal mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pampdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang snmp spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype x86 xinerama xml2 xmms xprint xv yahoo zlib"
Same problem here.
gettext-0.14 links itself against the old library. re-emerge gettext. it will link against itself the second time. then continue and other things will build as expected.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 66449 ***
