Attempts to emerge blackbox with "nls" among the USE flags always fail with translation errors. Emerge works without problems, with USE="-nls". I've been able to reproduce this on ppc and x86. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. "emerge blackbox" Actual Results: emerge fails. Output is the same on both ppc and x86: >>> emerge (1 of 1) x11-wm/blackbox-0.62.1-r3 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) blackbox-0.62.1.tar.gz commonbox >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking blackbox-0.62.1.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/blackbox-0.62.1-r3/work >>> Source unpacked. commonbox util/Makefile.am:9: bad macro name `_SOURCES' util/Makefile.am:10: bad macro name `_LDADD' util/Makefile.am:9: invalid unused variable name: `_SOURCES' util/Makefile.am:10: invalid unused variable name: `_LDADD' nls gnome truetype creating cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for working aclocal-1.4... found checking for working autoconf... found checking for working automake-1.4... found checking for working autoheader... found checking for working makeinfo... found checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc -march=athlon-xp -O3 -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -fforce-addr -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc -march=athlon-xp -O3 -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -fforce-addr -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer ) is a cros s-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for c++... g++ checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ -march=athlon-xp -O3 -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=s se -fforce-addr -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer ) works.. . yes checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ -march=athlon-xp -O3 -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -fforce-addr -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C++... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking for a BSD compatible install... /bin/install -c checking for sed... sed checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for ctype.h... yes checking for dirent.h... yes checking for fcntl.h... yes checking for libgen.h... yes checking for locale.h... yes checking for nl_types.h... yes checking for process.h... no checking for signal.h... yes checking for stdarg.h... yes checking for stdio.h... yes checking for time.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for sys/param.h... yes checking for sys/select.h... yes checking for sys/signal.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for sys/time.h... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/wait.h... yes checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking for basename... yes checking for getpid... yes checking for setlocale... yes checking for sigaction... yes checking for strftime... yes checking for strcasestr... yes checking for snprintf... yes checking for vsnprintf... yes checking for catopen... yes checking for catgets... yes checking for catclose... yes checking for t_open in -lnsl... no checking for socket in -lsocket... no checking for X... libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers /usr/X11R6/include checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet... no checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet_stub... no checking for gethostbyname... yes checking for connect... yes checking for remove... yes checking for shmat... yes checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes checking for XOpenDisplay in -lX11... yes checking whether to build support for the XShape extension... yes checking for XShapeCombineShape in -lXext... yes checking for X11/extensions/shape.h... yes checking whether to include the Slit... yes checking whether to include the new WM Spec (DOES NOTHING)... no checking whether to include interlacing image code... yes checking whether to include Pseudocolor ordered dithering code... no checking whether to include verbose debugging code... no checking whether to include NLS support... yes checking for setlocale in -lxpg4... no checking for gencat... gencat checking whether to use the new timed pixmap cache... yes checking return type of signal handlers... void checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no blackbox version 0.62.1pre0 configured successfully. Using '/usr' for installation. Using 'g++' for C++ compiler. Building with '-march=athlon-xp -O3 -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -fforce-addr -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/X11R6/include' for C++ compiler flags. Building with ' -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXext' for linker flags. updating cache ./config.cache creating ./config.status creating Makefile creating src/Makefile creating util/Makefile creating data/Makefile creating data/styles/Makefile creating doc/Makefile creating doc/ja_JP/Makefile creating doc/nl_NL/Makefile creating doc/sl_SI/Makefile creating nls/Makefile creating nls/C/Makefile creating nls/da_DK/Makefile creating nls/de_DE/Makefile creating nls/es_ES/Makefile creating nls/et_EE/Makefile creating nls/fr_FR/Makefile creating nls/it_IT/Makefile creating nls/ja_JP/Makefile creating nls/nl_NL/Makefile creating nls/pt_BR/Makefile creating nls/ru_RU/Makefile creating nls/sl_SI/Makefile creating nls/sv_SE/Makefile creating nls/tr_TR/Makefile creating nls/zh_CN/Makefile creating version.h creating config.h make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/blackbox-0.62.1-r3/work/blackbox-0.62.1' Making all in doc make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/blackbox-0.62.1-r3/work/blackbox-0.62.1/doc' Making all in ja_JP make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/blackbox-0.62.1-r3/work/blackbox-0.62.1/doc/ja_JP' sed -e "s,@defaultmenu@,/usr/share/commonbox/menu," \ -e "s,@pkgdatadir@,/usr/share/commonbox," \ -e "s,@version@,0.62.1pre0," \ ./blackbox.1.in > blackbox.1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/blackbox-0.62.1-r3/work/blackbox-0.62.1/doc/ja_JP' Making all in nl_NL make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/blackbox-0.62.1-r3/work/blackbox-0.62.1/doc/nl_NL' sed -e "s,@defaultmenu@,/usr/share/commonbox/menu," \ -e "s,@pkgdatadir@,/usr/share/commonbox," \ -e "s,@version@,0.62.1pre0," \ ./blackbox.1.in > blackbox.1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/blackbox-0.62.1-r3/work/blackbox-0.62.1/doc/nl_NL' Making all in sl_SI make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/blackbox-0.62.1-r3/work/blackbox-0.62.1/doc/sl_SI' sed -e "s,@defaultmenu@,/usr/share/commonbox/menu," \ -e "s,@pkgdatadir@,/usr/share/commonbox," \ -e "s,@version@,0.62.1pre0," \ ./blackbox.1.in > blackbox.1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/blackbox-0.62.1-r3/work/blackbox-0.62.1/doc/sl_SI' make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/blackbox-0.62.1-r3/work/blackbox-0.62.1/doc' sed -e "s,@defaultmenu@,/usr/share/commonbox/menu," \ -e "s,@pkgdatadir@,/usr/share/commonbox," \ -e "s,@version@,0.62.1pre0," \ ./blackbox.1.in > blackbox.1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/blackbox-0.62.1-r3/work/blackbox-0.62.1/doc' make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/blackbox-0.62.1-r3/work/blackbox-0.62.1/doc' Making all in nls make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/blackbox-0.62.1-r3/work/blackbox-0.62.1/nls' Making all in C make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/blackbox-0.62.1-r3/work/blackbox-0.62.1/nls/C' awk -f ./../convert.awk header=../blackbox-nls.hh \ output=Translation.m ./BaseDisplay.m ./Basemenu.m ./Configmenu.m ./Icon.m ./Image.m ./Screen.m ./Slit.m ./Toolbar.m ./Window.m ./Windowmenu.m ./Workspace.m ./Workspacemenu.m ./blackbox.m ./common.m ./main.m ./bsetroot.m make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/blackbox-0.62.1-r3/work/blackbox-0.62.1/nls/C' Making all in da_DK make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/blackbox-0.62.1-r3/work/blackbox-0.62.1/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:27: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:28: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:29: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:31: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:32: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:47: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:57: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:59: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:100: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:102: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:109: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:113: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:121: 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:139: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:151: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:154: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:159: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:160: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:161: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:167: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:168: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:169: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:170: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:184: invalid character: message ignored Translation.m:185: invalid character: message ignored make[3]: *** [blackbox.cat] Error 1 make[3]: *** [blackbox.cat] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/blackbox-0.62.1-r3/work/blackbox-0.62.1/nls/da_DK' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/blackbox-0.62.1-r3/work/blackbox-0.62.1/nls' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/blackbox-0.62.1-r3/work/blackbox-0.62.1' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 !!! ERROR: x11-wm/blackbox-0.62.1-r3 failed. !!! Function commonbox_src_compile, Line 114, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) emerge info from the x86 machine (the ppc machine has the same program versions and similar USE flags, but slightly less aggressive CFLAGS): Portage 2.0.49-r13 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.2.5-r2,2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Duron(TM)Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -fforce-addr -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse -fforce-addr -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache autoaddcvs sandbox userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/unix/Linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/" USE="x86 oss apm avi cups foomaticdb gif libg++ mad mikmod ncurses nls spell xml2 gdbm berkdb slang readline svga tcltk java guile sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww perl python esd imlib motif scanner 3dnow 3dnowext mmx mmxext sse usb ssl opengl xv X rage128 alsa cdr pda gphoto2 jpeg png tiff dvd mpeg oggvorbis xmms encode mozilla mozcalendar mozsvg tetex quicktime xvid -kde -qt -qtmt -arts gnome gtk gtk2 bonobo evo gb gtkhtml imap mbox -maildir zlib crypt truetype pdflib"
Forgot to mention, this problem has turned up in the forums: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=98655
Please set LC_ALL to your appropriate locale, eg LC_ALL="de_DE" to avoid building all translations. The Dutch translation in upstream Blackbox is broken.
