diff -urN portage-2.0.49-r15.orig/bin/ebuild.sh portage-2.0.49-r15/bin/ebuild.sh
--- portage-2.0.49-r15.orig/bin/ebuild.sh	2003-10-22 02:04:47.000000000 +0000
+++ portage-2.0.49-r15/bin/ebuild.sh	2003-11-20 12:04:30.000000000 +0000
@@ -3,6 +3,18 @@
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/portage/bin/ebuild.sh,v 1.143 2003/10/13 07:43:38 carpaski Exp $
 
+if [ "${LC_ALL+set}" = set ]; then
+	if [ -z "$LC_MESSAGES" ]; then LC_MESSAGES=$LC_ALL; fi
+	if [ -z "$LC_MONETARY" ]; then LC_MONETARY=$LC_ALL; fi
+	if [ -z "$LC_TIME" ]; then LC_TIME=$LC_ALL; fi
+	unset LC_ALL
+	export LC_MESSAGES LC_MONETARY LC_TIME
+fi
+LC_COLLATE="C"
+LC_CTYPE="C"
+LC_NUMERIC="C"
+export LC_COLLATE LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC
+
 if [ "$*" != "depend" ] && [ "$*" != "clean" ]; then
 	if [ -f ${T}/successful ]; then
 		rm -f ${T}/successful
@@ -684,11 +696,6 @@
 		echo -ne "\a"; sleep 0.25 &>/dev/null; echo -ne "\a"; sleep 0.25 &>/dev/null
 		echo -ne "\a"; sleep 0.25 &>/dev/null; echo -ne "\a"; sleep 0.25 &>/dev/null
 		echo -ne "\a"; sleep 0.25 &>/dev/null; echo -ne "\a"; sleep 0.25 &>/dev/null
-
-		echo -ne "\a"; sleep 0,25 &>/dev/null; echo -ne "\a"; sleep 0,25 &>/dev/null
-		echo -ne "\a"; sleep 0,25 &>/dev/null; echo -ne "\a"; sleep 0,25 &>/dev/null
-		echo -ne "\a"; sleep 0,25 &>/dev/null; echo -ne "\a"; sleep 0,25 &>/dev/null
-		echo -ne "\a"; sleep 0,25 &>/dev/null; echo -ne "\a"; sleep 0,25 &>/dev/null
 		sleep 3
 	fi