Re: gettext-0.13 -- 'make check' problems

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Bruno Haible wrote:

> Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
> > I just fetched and built the new gettext-0.13 (as usual with VPATH,
> > i.e. outside the source tree).
> >
> > During 'make check' I got two FAIL's, ........
>
> Thanks for reporting this. The appended patch fixes it.

Hi Bruno,

thanks for the quick reply. The patch is applied and gives some improvement.
However, the two "lang-*sh" tests still FAIL, because our bash (2.05b)
lacks translation abilities!!! I had the impression that the tests are
supposed to take care if this possibility???

.......
PASS: lang-objc
1,2c1,2
< ?Votre commande, s'il vous plait?, dit le gar?on.
< 2 morceaux de gateau
---
> 'Your command, please?', asked the waiter.
> 2 pieces of cake
FAIL: lang-sh
2c2
< 2 morceaux de gateau
---
> 2 pieces of cake
FAIL: lang-bash
.......
=======================
2 of 219 tests failed
(10 tests were not run)
=======================
make[3]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1

It looks as if, without the patch, (some of) the other tests only succeeded
because they used the tools from an already installed earlier gettext
version!!

> You can execute some particular tests by doing
>     cd gettext-tools; make check
> or
>     cd gettext-tools/tests; make check TESTS="lang-sh lang-bash"

Yes, I know this in principle, but I tend to forget the details.

Peter Breitenlohner <address@hidden>