joeo here. This localize command is unused and causes that execve error.
diff --git a/core/tasks/localize.mk b/core/tasks/localize.mk
deleted file mode 100644
index 12e7b5c..0000000
--- a/core/tasks/localize.mk
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2008 The Android Open Source Project
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-#
-# Rules for building the xlb files for export for translation.
-#
-
-# Gather all of the resource files for the default locale -- that is,
-# all resources in directories called values or values-something, where
-# one of the - separated segments is not two characters long -- those are the
-# language directories, and we don't want those.
-all_resource_files := $(foreach pkg, \
- $(PRODUCTS.$(INTERNAL_PRODUCT).PRODUCT_PACKAGES), \
- $(PACKAGES.$(pkg).RESOURCE_FILES))
-values_resource_files := $(shell echo $(all_resource_files) | \
- tr -s / | \
- tr " " "\n" | \
- grep -E "\/values[^/]*/(strings.xml|arrays.xml)$$" | \
- grep -v -E -e "-[a-zA-Z]{2}[/\-]")
-
-xlb_target := $(PRODUCT_OUT)/strings.xlb
-
-$(xlb_target): $(values_resource_files) | $(LOCALIZE)
- @echo XLB: $@
- $(hide) mkdir -p $(dir $@)
- $(hide) rm -f $@
- $(hide) $(LOCALIZE) xlb $@ $^
-
-# Add a phony target so typing make xlb is convenient
-.PHONY: xlb
-xlb: $(xlb_target)
-
-# We want this on the build-server builds, but no reason to inflict it on
-# everyone
-$(call dist-for-goals, droid, $(xlb_target))
-
