portinstall failure

[Yasuhiro KIMURA]

I have noticed installing port with 'portinstall' fails when other
ports are installed as dependency. For example,

root at rolling-vm-freebsd1[876]# portinstall -c devel/gmake
[Reading data from pkg(8) ... - 140 packages found - done]    
--->  Installing 'gmake-4.2.1_1' from a port (devel/gmake)    
--->  Building '/usr/ports/devel/gmake'                       
===>  Cleaning for gmake-4.2.1_1                              
===>  License GPLv3 accepted by the user                      
===>   gmake-4.2.1_1 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/pkg - found                                                           ===> Fetching all distfiles required by gmake-4.2.1_1 for building                                                          ===>  Extracting for gmake-4.2.1_1                            
=> SHA256 Checksum OK for make-4.2.1.tar.bz2.                 
===>  Patching for gmake-4.2.1_1                              
===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for gmake-4.2.1_1              
===>   gmake-4.2.1_1 depends on executable: msgfmt - not found                                                              make[3]: don't know how to make /usr/ports/devel/gettext-tools/work/.install_done.gettext-tools._usr_local. Stop             
make[3]: stopped in /am/eastasia/usr0/freebsd/ports/ports/devel/gettext-tools                                               *** Error code 2               

Stop.                          
make[2]: stopped in /usr/ports/devel/gettext-tools            
*** Error code 1               

Stop.                          
make[1]: stopped in /am/eastasia/usr0/freebsd/ports/ports/devel/gmake                                                        *** Error code 1               

Stop.                          
make: stopped in /am/eastasia/usr0/freebsd/ports/ports/devel/gmake                                                          ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portinstall20170806-4867-dmtlzo env make                          ** Fix the problem and try again.                             
** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)                                                                   ! devel/gmake   (unknown build error)                 
root at rolling-vm-freebsd1[877]#

I don't think there was such problem before. Does anyone else
experience this?

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Yasuhiro KIMURA