When I emerge dev-libs/glib-2.6.2-r1 I get the following configure error: ... checking for ngettext in libc... yes checking for dgettext in libc... yes checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... yes checking for msgfmt... no configure: error: *** You must have either have gettext support in your C library, or use the *** GNU gettext library. (http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html ... (I've attached the config.log) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 52656 [details] config.log
And whats your 'emerge info', like the bugreport form asks you to provide ? gettext is a base profile pack and should be installed.
emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r0, 2.6.11-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 7 2005, 12:29:41)] distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1, 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -msse2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -msse2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi acpi4linux alsa avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux dvd emacs emboss encode fam fb fbcon flac freetype gif glut gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java javascript joystick jpeg kde mad mmx mmx2 mng mpeg msn ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pdflib png pnp python qt quicktime readline real screenshot sdl slang spell sse sse2 ssl stroke svg svga tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb wifi wmf xine xinerama xml2 xv xvid xvmc zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS ---------------- emerge gettext -p These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gettext-0.12.1-r2
I reemerged getext and now glib is emerging fine. So it's fixed.