Oh sorry, in your case, only 1 of the 2 methods below works:
1) *DOWNGRADE* gettext to 0.10.35
2) remove extra backslashes in the appropriate lines of .po file
Abel Cheung
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Stefan van der Eijk wrote:
> > Probably you can install the newest gettext(0.10.37) and try running
> > through all these again?
>
> I already had these packages installed:
> [root@alpha cooker]# rpm -qa | grep 0.10.37
> libintl1-0.10.37-1mdk
> gettext-0.10.37-1mdk
> gettext-devel-0.10.37-1mdk
> gettext-base-0.10.37-1mdk
>
> I recompiled the packages, and re-installed them... it doesn't seem to
> help...
>
>
>http://d10179.upc-d.chello.nl/build/cooker/alpha/problem/WindowMaker-0.64.0-7mdk.src.rpm.txt
>
> msgfmt -o zh_TW.Big5.mo zh_TW.Big5.po
> zh_TW.Big5.po:707: invalid control sequence
> zh_TW.Big5.po:836: invalid control sequence
> zh_TW.Big5.po:1286: invalid control sequence
> found 3 fatal errors
> make[2]: *** [zh_TW.Big5.mo] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/users/cooker/RPM/BUILD/WindowMaker-0.64.0/po'
> make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/users/cooker/RPM/BUILD/WindowMaker-0.64.0/po'
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> Bad exit status from /users/cooker/tmp/rpm-tmp.76733 (%install)
>
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