Problem with glib and gettext

[Eldomir]

I have a problem trying to emerge glib. When it runs the configure script, it complains because I don't have gettext:

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configure: error:
*** You must have either have gettext support in your C library, or use the
*** GNU gettext library. (http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html

But on the other hand, emerge -s gettext:

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*  sys-devel/gettext
      Latest version available: 0.12.1-r1
      Latest version installed: 0.12.1-r1
      Size of downloaded files: 5,592 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html
      Description: GNU locale utilities
      License:     GPL-2

Any idea why this is happening?

[Eldomir]

Ok, I just did an emerge sync and it appears now gettext doesn't have the mac os keyword anymore, so that explains it (it was there when I emerged it a couple of days ago).

[phaidros]

as found in:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64779

------ Additional Comment #1 From Lina Pezzella 2004-09-28 18:50 PST -------

it looks like gettext was compiled without 'nls'. This should be hardcoded into the ebuild, so it shouldn't have happened. Make sure you've
emerged sync recently, then recompile gettext, and try glib again. If it still fails, try 'USE=nls emerge gettext glib'.

USE="nls" for gettext worked for me. sadly I can't find out which versions I have installed cause qpkg is broken and won't get fixed coz depreceated and the tools insteas - equery - is to cryptic and functionless for me : /

ps: in case an ebuild has no ppc-macos or ~ppc-macos flag you can install it by

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emerge /path/to/ebuild.ebuild

(depreceated, but still working)
or just set the needed keyword with

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ekeyword ~ppc-macos /path/to/ebuild.ebuild 
emerge ebuild

regards