Re: lynx-dev about fr.po of lynx 2.8.3

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am new to this mailing list so this might be already 
> discussed but as far as I searched I could not find this 
> issue so I would like to ask if this is a problem or not.
> 
> When I tried to compile lynx-2.8.3.tar.gz
> (http://lynx.isc.org/release/lynx-2.8.3.tar.gz)
> which is described as "the distribution with available
> international message catalogs" it failed to compile as
> 
> file=./`echo fr | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
>   && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH /usr/bin/msgfmt -o $file fr.po
> fr.po:1555: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both begin with '\n'
> fr.po:5520: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both begin with '\n'
> fr.po:6511: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both begin with '\n'
> found 3 fatal errors
> make[1]: *** [fr.gmo] Error 1
> 
> I changed fr.po with that of old version (I forgot the precise
> version) and succeeded to compile.
> 
> Is this bug? or already well-known?

it's a bug (no one reported it before).  I've built with fr.po, but didn't
see that before (the .po files are maintained separately from the C code).

>  Atsuhito Kohda <address@hidden>

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Thomas E. Dickey  <address@hidden>
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