Re: gettext-0.10.39

[Bruno Haible]

Len Makin writes:

> 2. Problem: configure decides alloca is necessary. However compilation fails
> due to the identifier REGISTER not being defined anywhere. I tried
> #undef REGISTER 
> in config.h, but no dice. Ended up editing lib/alloca.c and deleting 
> "REGISTER"
> occurrences.

Thanks for the report. Replacing 'REGISTER' with 'register', or
removing all occurrences of 'REGISTER', are equally good solutions.

> 3. Check failure - gmake check produces the following:
> 1,3c1
> < MSGFMT(1) portable message object file compiler
> < Copyright (C) 1995 Free Software Foundation
> < Report bugs to <address@hidden>
> ---
> > SYS_(C)
> FAIL: gettext-1
> cmd-1794 diff: Missing newline at end of file 'gtmf-test2.ok'.
> cmd-1794 diff: Missing newline at end of file 'gt-test2.out'.
> 1c1
> < error 3 translation
> ---
> > error 3
> FAIL: gettext-2
...
> file "mu-test1.mo" is not in GNU .mo format
> cmd-1044 diff: Cannot obtain file status on 'mu-test1.out': No such file or 
> directory
> FAIL: msgunfmt-1

> file "fr/LC_MESSAGES/cake.mo" is not in GNU .mo format

This means there are some severe portability problems in either
msgfmt, or in msgunfmt and the intl/ directory. If you want to get
this fixed, I'm afraid you'll need debug that using a C debugger, I
don't have access to such exotic hardware as Cray.

To determine whether the msgunfmt-1 test failed because of a
nonfunctional 'msgfmt' or because of a broken 'msgunfmt', you can
compare "mu-test1.mo" with the correct one, appended below.

Bruno


begin 644 mu-test1.mo
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M````TP````,address@hidden
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M`!(!```%````&`$```8````>address@hidden'``````````4````$````
address@hidden"`````,```!E:6=H=`!F:79E`&9O=7(`;VYE`'-E=F5N
M`'-I>`!T:')E90!T=V\`96EG:'1H`&9I9G1H`&9O=7)T:`!F:7)S=`!S979E
7;G1H`'-I>'1H`'1H:7)D`'-E8V]N9```
`
end