Created attachment 363214 [details, diff] Add an "nls" USE check. gdbm's compile process can disable nls (but has it enabled by default) so as not to install a whole bunch of translation files into /usr/share/locale. Patch attached.
should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report! Commit message: Add USE=nls support http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/gdbm/gdbm-1.10-r1.ebuild?r1=1.1&r2=1.2