Re: CVS gettext: many test failures

[Bruno Haible]

Thank you Ralf for signalling these test failures. It's always good to
catch them as early as possible, and we don't have a buildbot for gettext.

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> With that PATH change, only one test failure remains:
> 
> $ make check TESTS=msgcat-15
> make  check-TESTS
> make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/build/gettext-tools/tests'
> 1,4c1,4
> < msgid   ""
> < msgstr  "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
> <         "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
> <         "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
> ---
> > msgid ""
> > msgstr        "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
> >       "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
> >       "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"

This one is normal: "msgcat --indent" is changed to use spaces now instead of
tabs, for intentation.

> ma-test1.po:2:1: syntax error
> msgattrib: found 1 fatal error
> FAIL: msgattrib-1

This one suggests the PO parser is not correctly built. One possible reason
is a change in message.h that would require some .o files to be rebuilt.
If after "make clean; make" the tests pass, it was that. If not, then my
guess is that the files
   gettext-tools/src/po-gram-gen.h
   gettext-tools/src/po-gram-gen2.h
   gettext-tools/src/po-gram-gen.c
are out of sync. This happened to me once or twice too. For fixing this
in gettext-tools/src/Makefile.am I'd need to know the precise situation,
i.e.
  - are you using a VPATH build?
  - what are the timestamps of
      gettext-tools/src/po-gram-gen.y
      gettext-tools/src/po-gram-gen.h
      gettext-tools/src/po-gram-gen2.h
      gettext-tools/src/po-gram-gen.c
    in the build directory and in the source directory?

Bruno