Re: [bug-gettext] make check fails at lang-bash on Mac OS X 10.5.8

[Daiki Ueno]

Jens Bauer <address@hidden> writes:

> FAIL: lang-bash
[...]
> -And my bash version (as shipped with Mac OS X 10.5.8):
> GNU bash, version 3.2.17(1)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin9.0)

Thanks for the report, but it's a known issue.  See the comment in the
lang-bash script:

  # This test fails on MacOS X 10.5 because its 'bash' command is built with
  # an included intl directory without iconv support; hence it produces wrong
  # output when accessing any .mo file not generated from a .po file in UTF-8
  # encoding.

BTW, it's probably good to skip this test if the brokeness can be
easily detected at run time, though I have no idea how to do that.  Is
this still the case on Mac OS X 10.10?

> Now, my question is: Will this affect other builds that depend on gettext ?

The test failure means that the gettext bash support doesn't work with the
Mac OS X's default 'bash' command:

  http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#bash

So, as long as other builds don't depend on the bash translation
feature, I think you don't need to worry about it.

Thanks,
-- 
Daiki Ueno