diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/config/env/sys-devel/gettext b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/config/env/sys-devel/gettext
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+EXTRA_ECONF="--with-libncurses-prefix=${ROOT}usr --with-libxml2-prefix=${ROOT}usr"