[bug #66356] On Windows: msginit fails to run cldr-plurals if shared build

[Bruno Haible]

Update of bug #66356 (group gettext):

                Category:                    None => Translator tools       
             Assigned to:                    None => haible                 

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Follow-up Comment #4:

Thanks for the report and analysis.

> I see two possible fixes:
>
> 1. when msginit launches cldr-plurals, temporarily set the current directory
to the one where msginit is located.
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> 2. when msginit launches cldr-plurals, temporarily add the directory of
msginit to the PATH environment variable.

Fix 1 may work in this case, because msginit does not pass relative file names
to cldr-plurals. But it is not a general solution.

Fix 2 is the right approach, but needs to be done carefully because modifying
an environment variable is not multithread-safe.


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