Re: GNU gettext 0.12.1 - msgfmt asserts

[Bruno Haible]

Mikael Hakman wrote:
> the relevant parts of "make check" on
> glibc seem to be purly designed - you are not supposed to install things
> before you run checks but in order to run the check you have to install - a
> catch 22 situation.

Yes you are not supposed to install things before "make check". But the
appropriate action in this situation is to fix glibc, not to whine about
"poorly designed". I submitted a glibc patch for you now.

> By examining "tst_gettext.out" it
> appears that the test is supposed to translate some system messages to
> German but the actual output is still in English.

I bet it's a similar thing. The locale format has changed before glibc 2.2.
Probably the test programs attempt to use the installed locales, see
that they are too old (by looking at a magic number) and don't use them after
all. The fix ought to be to ensure that the locales in the build directory
are used. One more occasion for you to provide a glibc patch :-)

Bruno