mars ~ # emerge gkrellm Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) app-admin/gkrellm-2.2.4 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) gkrellm-2.2.4.tar.bz2 >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking gkrellm-2.2.4.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/gkrellm-2.2.4/work >>> Source unpacked. echo "prefix=/usr" > gkrellm.pc echo "Name: GKrellM" >> gkrellm.pc echo "Description: Extensible GTK system monitoring application" >> gkrellm.pc echo "Version: 2.2.4" >> gkrellm.pc echo "Requires: gtk+-2.0 >= 2.0.0" >> gkrellm.pc echo "Cflags: -I/usr/include" >> gkrellm.pc (cd po && make all) make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gkrellm-2.2.4/work/gkrellm-2.2.4/po' msgfmt -f -v -o cs.mo cs.po usage: msgfmt [ -dv ] [ - ] [ name ... ] usage: msgfmt [ -dv ] [ - ] [ name ... ] cs.mo: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [cs.mo] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gkrellm-2.2.4/work/gkrellm-2.2.4/po' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: app-admin/gkrellm-2.2.4 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 35, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11.4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11.4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 8 2005, 09:41:49)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4, 1.8.5-r3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/mnt/src/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://206.75.217.180/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl emboss encode esd fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml2 xmms xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge gkrellm 2. 3. Actual Results: error as described Expected Results: emerge success Currently have 2.1.28 installed
re-emerging gettext solved the problem. Even though I had 0.14.1 installed, re-emerging it reinstalled msgfmt which then allowed all compiles to complete. Marking as resolved.