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

[Jens Bauer]

Hi Daiki.

On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 17:33:32 +0900, Daiki Ueno wrote:
> 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:
> [...]

I'm very sorry for the noice; you must have seen this a lot then (though I had 
not been able to find anything on the net, probably because the search terms 
are too general and the results I'm looking for are drowned).

> 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.

Since I don't want my script to modify the sources...
Is it possible to turn off this particular test, so it will be skipped ?
-I'm thinking something in this direction: supply SKIP_CHECK="lang-bash" for 
make or some --disable-check=bash-lang for configure ?

Otherwise, I *could* of course do a "make check" and then grep the output for 
"FAIL", if there's only one, and it's "lang-bash", then I could proceed, 
otherwise stop the build. ;)

> Is this still the case on Mac OS X 10.10?

Sadly, I am not able to run any Mac OS X later than 10.5.8, because I am using 
PowerPC based machines.
10.6 and later is intel-only.

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

Thank you for all this information; it's very helpful. -And thank you for all 
the work you're doing; it's highly appreciated! :)


Love
Jens