make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/deskbar-applet-2.14.2/work/deskbar-applet-2.14.2/po' INTLTOOL_EXTRACT=../intltool-extract srcdir=. ../intltool-update --gettext-package deskbar-applet --pot ERROR: xgettext failed to generate PO template file because there is non-ASCII string marked for translation. Please make sure that all strings marked for translation are in uniform encoding (say UTF-8), then *prepend* the following line to POTFILES.in and rerun intltool-update: [encoding: UTF-8] make[1]: *** [deskbar-applet.pot] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/deskbar-applet-2.14.2/work/deskbar-applet-2.14.2/po' make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 !!! ERROR: gnome-extra/deskbar-applet-2.14.2 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1543: Called dyn_test ebuild.sh, line 986: Called src_test ebuild.sh, line 616: Called die !!! Make check failed. See above for details. !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. Portage 2.1.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1/vanilla, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.20GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.2 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: 2.0.0_rc2-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r2 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: [Not Present] sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4m -mtune=pentium4m -O3 -pipe -ggdb3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4m -mtune=pentium4m -O3 -pipe -ggdb3" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict test" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.cs.rose-hulman.edu/linux/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--enable-new-dtags,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://gentoo.cs.rose-hulman.edu/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi afs alsa avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bzip2 cjk cli cups dbus dlloader dri eds emboss encode esd evo foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib isdnlog jbig jpeg jpeg2k kde lcms libg++ libwww mad mikmod mono mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl ogg opengl oss pam pcmcia pcre pdf pdflib png ppds pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection session slp spell spl ssl svg symlink test threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis wmf xml xmms xorg xpm xprint xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_radeon" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Bug should be fixed upstream. Please file it in Gnome's bugzilla and add a link here.
2.16.2-r1 and 2.18.1 both pass.