Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache confcache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.intergenia.de http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/" LDFLAGS="-W1,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j12" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 3dnownext 7zip X aac aalib ace acl alsa apache2 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cgi cli crypt cups dba divx4linux dlloader dri dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode exif flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib inifile isdnlog java jpeg latin1 lm_sensors lzw lzw-tiff memlimit mime moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mp3 mpeg msn mysql mysqli nas ncurses nptl nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl php png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime rar readline reflection ruby samba sandbox sdl server session shorten smp sndfile sockets spell spl sqlite ssl startup-notification svg tcpd threads tidy tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb v4l vcd verbose vhosts video4linux video_cards_nvidia videos vorbis wmf xml xml2 xorg xpm xprint xslt xv xvid zip zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ---------------- media-libs/flac-1.1.2-r3 fails to build without gettext on the system. With gettext it compiles without any problems. So I think the ebuild should be updated with gettext as a dependency.
gettext dependency is pulled by another dependencies. So flac doesn't need it.