yes it looks like there's a history of not-working openbox ebuilds. someone needs to fix this :)
Someone also needs to report what the error is :-). In my case, the ebuild fails with: Making all in da_DK make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/openbox-2.3.1/work/openbox-2.3.1/nls/da_DK' Translation.m:8: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:9: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:24: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:28: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:30: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:31: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:33: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:34: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:48: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:58: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:60: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:101: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:103: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:110: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:114: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:122: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:123: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:124: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:126: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:141: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:153: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:156: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:161: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:162: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:163: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:169: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:170: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:171: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:172: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:173: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:190: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:191: invalid character: message ignored make[3]: *** [openbox.cat] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/openbox-2.3.1/work/openbox-2.3.1/nls/da_DK' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/openbox-2.3.1/work/openbox-2.3.1/nls' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/openbox-2.3.1/work/openbox-2.3.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: x11-wm/openbox-2.3.1 failed. !!! Function commonbox_src_compile, Line 97, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage.local" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex bonobo svga tcltk java guile mysql postgres X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt kde motif opengl mozilla cdr xfs gtk2 apache2" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -s -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ffast-math" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -s -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ffast-math" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="ccache sandbox userpriv usersandbox"
For now, I can get by with: env USE="-nls" emerge openbox which avoids the NLS issues.
Taken from Bugzilla Bug 17753 - Openbox-2.3.0 ebuild doesn't work Another workaround for this appears to be setting LC_ALL before building. export LC_ALL="en_US" emerge openbox Works for me
something going on with glibc and nls. it's doing this to blackbox and fluxbox as well and i'm not sure exactly what's up. i think they're wanting you to have LC_ALL set as a default env variable. for the moment the only workarounds are the ones mentioned above.
