On Monday, 12 December 2022 08:29:50 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 09:00:42AM +0100, netfab wrote
> 
> > Le 12/12/22 à 07:30, Walter Dnes a tapoté :
> > >   I don't think they should make any difference, but included for
> > > 
> > > completeness.  File-attached is the gzipped build log...
> > > 
> > > (vapigen-0.56:375): GLib-CRITICAL **: 00:58:53.271: PCRE library is
> > > compiled without UTF8 support
> > 
> > You should try to first upgrade/rebuild the dev-libs/glib package.
> > 
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/883877
> 
>   No change.  dev-libs/glib-2.74.1-r1:2::gentoo was a straight rebuild;
> no upgrade; no USE-flag changes; and the babl compile still dies.  What
> is the "GLib-CRITICAL" bit about PCRE with no UTF8 support?

I don't know about the UTF8 error and if it is related to your failure, but 
since it complains about the vala compiler, it may be worth rebuilding it 
first?  

emerge -1aDv dev-lang/vala