Re: Bug#147621: gettext: msginit loses on web fetch (fwd)

[Bruno Haible]

Santiago Vila wrote:

> On a Debian system, whenever msginit has to guess the domain part of
> an address, it should ideally take it from /etc/mailname if it exists
> and only use fqdn as a last resort. Is this doable?

It's trivial. 6 lines of shell script code. Thanks for the suggestion.

> Retrieving
> http://www2.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard/po/registry.cgi?team=index...Exception
> in thread "main" java.lang.VerifyError: (class: gnu/gettext/GetURL$1,
> method: <init> signature: (Lgnu/gettext/GetURL;)V) Expecting to find
> object/array on stack at gnu.gettext.GetURL.fetch(GetURL.java:58)
>       at gnu.gettext.GetURL.main(GetURL.java:82)

Ouch, this looks like either a buggy Java compiler, or like a JVM with a
buggy verifier. Can you send the libintl.jar and the output of two scripts
in the gettext build directory?
  sh lib/javacomp.sh -version
  sh lib/javaexec.sh -version
Then Santiago can see whether the .class files in the libintl.jar are ok
and whether the problem comes from the Java compiler or JVM.

> The texinfo doc contains what should be *all* of the language codes,
> so there's probably a parseable complete list somewhere.  Something
> should check them [either msginit or the web site]

This would not be so good; new languages codes are being added every year.

Bruno