I have LINGUAS="C POSIX en en_IE en_US" set in my make.conf This causes x11-misc/xscreensaver-5.05 compile to fail with this message: User programs will be installed in /usr/bin/ Screen savers will be installed in /usr/lib/misc/xscreensaver/ Configuration dialogs will be installed in /usr/share/xscreensaver/config/ System-wide default settings will be installed in /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/ cp -p xscreensaver-demo-Gtk xscreensaver-demo building m6502.h from ./images/m6502/*.asm building molecules.h from ./../images/molecules/*.pdb make[1]: *** No rule to make target `C.gmo', needed by `all-yes'. Stop. make: *** [default] Error 5 I don't know if LINGUAS="C" is an illegal value, but I have been using it for a couple of months now and this is the first compile I can see failing because of it. LINGUAS="" emerge xscreensaver does compile fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
LINGUAS="C POSIX" is not valid, plus completely pointless... See $PORTDIR/profiles/desc/linguas.desc for a list of valid values.