Re: Bug#244215: gettext: /usr/bin/msginit reports java error (fwd)

[Bruno Haible]

Santiago Vila wrote:
> A long time ago I received this from the Debian bug system.
>
> By searching in google, this seems to be the result of the Debian
> gettext package not providing /usr/share/gettext/libintl.jar yet
> (I plan to fix this some day by using jikes-classpath).

More precisely, it's the consequence of Debian gettext not providing the
/usr/share/gettext/gettext.jar file. But using jikes-classpath will fix
this as well.

> However, I still don't have libintl.jar in my system and I am unnable
> to reproduce this. So: under which conditions this message is shown?
> What do I need to reproduce it?

To reproduce it: Build gettext with no gcj in the PATH.
(Because if gcj is present, gettext will install an executable in
/usr/lib/gettext/gnu.gettext.GetURL; this executable doesn't need a jar.)

For testing purposes, you can use /usr/lib/gettext/urlget instead of
msginit.

Bruno