Re: make check fails for gettext-0.16 under Solaris 9

[Bruno Haible]

Hello,

Ralf Menzel wrote:
> I try to compile gettext-0.16 under Solaris 9 with GCC 3.4.6.
> Unfortunately "make check" fails with the following errors:
> 
> --- snip ---
> recode-sr-latin: input is not valid in "ASCII" encoding: Illegal byte sequence
> FAIL: recode-sr-latin-2
> --- snip ---
> 
> and
> 
> --- snip ---
> 2c2
> < 2 morceaux de gateau
> ---
> > 2 pieces of cake
> FAIL: lang-gawk
> --- snip ---

With only these two (minor) failures, you can do a "make install".

> Please, tell me how I can help. As a start here is the output of
> "gawk --version | grep 'GNU Awk'" and "locale -a"

The test failure of gawk indicates a problem with gawk. You can help
by fetching the newest GNU awk sources, to see whether they also have
the problem, and then analyze why a simple _ works but dcngettext
doesn't.

Bruno