Re: [bug-gettext] msgfmt and Java Compiler on Windows

[Daiki Ueno]

Simon Martinelli <address@hidden> writes:

> Unfortunately this didn't help:
>
> set TMPDIR=c:\temp
> msgfmt --verbose --java2 -d generated -r Messages -l fr
> po/fr/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po
> msgfmt: c:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_38\bin\javac.exe
> subprocess failed: Bad file descriptor
>
> Btw. msgfmt from GnuWin32 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ works fine.

Yes, the old version seems not have the problem.  The version I tried
was also a bit older (0.18.1) and the above workaround doesn't help with
the latest version (0.18.3).

Anyway, I tracked down the problem and reported the possible cause:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2013-09/msg00042.html

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno