It looks like gettext tools need to be called natively, and the only NLS library dependency is libintl.
Created attachment 715551 [details, diff] fix.patch
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6123e6f4c4b62898fdb0666cc09a4f19980fd459 commit 6123e6f4c4b62898fdb0666cc09a4f19980fd459 Author: David Michael <fedora.dm0@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2021-06-12 18:32:12 +0000 Commit: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-06-12 18:45:39 +0000 net-misc/iputils: move gettext to BDEPEND Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/795654 Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.18, Repoman-3.0.2 Signed-off-by: David Michael <fedora.dm0@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> net-misc/iputils/iputils-20210202.ebuild | 9 +++++---- net-misc/iputils/iputils-99999999.ebuild | 9 +++++---- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)