Hi Torsten, With the official 4.8 release, I don't encounter any problems in this respect.
Oh, I didn't realize you were talking about the built-from-CVS version. For me, (export LANG=de; makeinfo --version) does *not* print German even with the released 4.8. Shouldn't that work? Does it work for you? (I also tried fr and other languages.) In fact, I get no translations for other programs (eg, grep), not just makeinfo. I must be doing something very wrong. I'm baffled. However, "make" doesn't make those *.gmo files that are apparently necessary for the translation. I see no error messages, only with "make install". I'm not doing anything special in the Makefiles, all this stuff is being generated by automake+autoconf+gettext. I guess something else needs to happen to build the .gmo's, but I don't understand enough to know what, offhand. Can you look into it? After they're made, maybe it's also necessary to somehow install/symlink the files in the Texinfo source hier to somewhere that gettext will find them? I have autoconf 2.59 and automake 1.9.1. That seems fine. I have automake 1.9.5 but I can't imagine that's the problem. The gettext version is probably the most relevant, but again, I doubt that's the problem. Sorry ... karl _______________________________________________ Texinfo home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo help-texinfo@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-texinfo