Can you please have a look if virtual/awk is sufficient or if gawk is needed.
should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report! Commit message: Update to EAPI=4, add USE=static-libs, and drop useless dependencies http://sources.gentoo.org/net-libs/rpc2/rpc2-2.10.ebuild?r1=1.1&r2=1.2