dpkg fails to emerge on uclibc due to the dependency of app-text/po4a. This is only needed tor the translated manpages. To give support for uclibc I suggest to add a nls useflag: --- /usr/portage/app-arch/dpkg/dpkg-1.13.25.ebuild 2007-09-11 14:05:35 +0000 +++ dpkg-1.13.25.ebuild 2007-09-17 14:08:43 +0000 @@ -11,17 +11,23 @@ LICENSE="GPL-2" SLOT="0" KEYWORDS="alpha ~amd64 arm ~hppa ia64 m68k ~ppc s390 sh sparc x86" -IUSE="bzip2 selinux zlib" +IUSE="bzip2 nls selinux zlib" RDEPEND=">=dev-lang/perl-5.6.0 >=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2-r7 zlib? ( >=sys-libs/zlib-1.1.4 ) bzip2? ( app-arch/bzip2 )" DEPEND="${RDEPEND} - app-text/po4a" + nls? ( app-text/po4a )" + +src_unpack() { + unpack "${A}" + use nls || epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-nonls.patch || die +} src_compile() { econf \ + $(use_enable nls) \ $(use_with bzip2 bz2lib) \ $(use_with selinux) \ $(use_with zlib) \
Created attachment 131157 [details, diff] files/dpkg-1.13.25-nonls.patch Its technically wrong to patch Makefile.in. Correct way to do this would be to patch Makefile.am and configure.ac. The problem in this situation is that auto(re)conf needs geth gettext m4 files so that will only the move the problem and not solve it. Thats why the patch modified Makefile.in. A "correct" patch is sent to the email address display on $HOMEPAGE
should be fixed in 1.14.12
*** Bug 203203 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
