gettext-0.13.1 -- make check [Was:] Re: gettext-0.13 -- 'make check' problems

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Bruno Haible wrote:

> Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
> > The patch is applied and gives some
> > improvement. However, the two "lang-*sh" tests still FAIL
>
> Maybe because you don't have a fr_FR locale installed. I'm changing the
> testsuite so that it will skip the two tests in this case.

Hi Bruno,

The fr_FR locale is installed, and anyway your tests did already check for
this possibility.

> > because our bash (2.05b) lacks translation abilities
>
> The output before "FAIL: lang-bash" indicates that your bash supports
> the $"..." syntax just fine.
>
> Note that internationalization of shell scripts via gettext.sh is portable
> across the range of Bourne-compatible shells; no special case needs to be
> done for bash scripts.

I had the same problems with the current version 0.13.1, and therefore I did
some testing (e.g., additional output from the generated prog.sh) and
finally found the cause of my problems.

Originally, I did 'configure ... --disable-nls' and this not only disables
the ability of the ngettext utility to have its own messages translated but
in addition the ability to translate any messages at all. I now do
'LINGUAS=" " configure ...' and everything works fine.

Since precisely that is described in the README, it was all my own
fault/stupidity and I want to apologize. I am surprised that just these two
tests (lang-bash and lang-sh) were affected.

regards
Peter Breitenlohner <address@hidden>