[HACKERS] gettext version problem exposed by buildfarm failures on canary
I see buildfarm member canary (NetBSD 1.6) was recently resurrected, but is failing to build HEAD, because msgfmt fails like this: po/es.po:8039: keyword msgid_plural unknown po/es.po:8036: missing `msgstr' section po/es.po:8039: parse error This indicates (1) canary needs a newer version of gettext, and (2) our configure test for a sufficiently new gettext installation is not in fact correct, because it didn't complain. I asked about the configure issue some time ago, and was told that the existing test for bind_textdomain_codeset() in libintl was sufficient because that was introduced after ngettext(). It could be that the library's history is different on NetBSD, or perhaps canary has a recent libintl.so and a not so recent msgfmt. I doubt it's worth trying to fix this before 8.4 release, but it should get looked into eventually. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
Re: [HACKERS] gettext version problem exposed by buildfarm failures on canary
On Fri, June 26, 2009 9:34 am, Tom Lane wrote: I see buildfarm member canary (NetBSD 1.6) was recently resurrected, but is failing to build HEAD, because msgfmt fails like this: po/es.po:8039: keyword msgid_plural unknown po/es.po:8036: missing `msgstr' section po/es.po:8039: parse error This indicates (1) canary needs a newer version of gettext, and (2) our configure test for a sufficiently new gettext installation is not in fact correct, because it didn't complain. I asked about the configure issue some time ago, and was told that the existing test for bind_textdomain_codeset() in libintl was sufficient because that was introduced after ngettext(). It could be that the library's history is different on NetBSD, or perhaps canary has a recent libintl.so and a not so recent msgfmt. I doubt it's worth trying to fix this before 8.4 release, but it should get looked into eventually. yes ... but presumably we don't want canary upgraded until we fix this, unless we get some other test platform for it. cheers andrew -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
Re: [HACKERS] gettext version problem exposed by buildfarm failures on canary
Andrew Dunstan and...@dunslane.net writes: On Fri, June 26, 2009 9:34 am, Tom Lane wrote: I doubt it's worth trying to fix this before 8.4 release, but it should get looked into eventually. yes ... but presumably we don't want canary upgraded until we fix this, unless we get some other test platform for it. What I'd suggest Kris do is temporarily disable the NLS option on that build, so we can get at least some useful testing from the machine. After a proposed configure fix has been installed, re-enable NLS, verify configure fails as expected, *then* upgrade msgfmt. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
Re: [HACKERS] gettext version problem exposed by buildfarm failures on canary
Tom Lane wrote: I see buildfarm member canary (NetBSD 1.6) was recently resurrected, but is failing to build HEAD, because msgfmt fails like this: po/es.po:8039: keyword msgid_plural unknown po/es.po:8036: missing `msgstr' section po/es.po:8039: parse error This indicates (1) canary needs a newer version of gettext, and (2) our configure test for a sufficiently new gettext installation is not in fact correct, because it didn't complain. NetBSD has an odd mix of a BSD libintl and GNU msgfmt, so the library provides both ngettext and bind_textdomain_codeset, but that has no implications about what msgfmt supports. pgf...@netbsd:~$ msgfmt --version msgfmt (GNU gettext) 0.10.35 Also, the man page for libintl says, bind_textdomain_codeset() does not work at this moment (always fail). So perhaps this platform is just a lost cause. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
Re: [HACKERS] gettext version problem exposed by buildfarm failures on canary
Tom Lane wrote: What I'd suggest Kris do is temporarily disable the NLS option on that build, so we can get at least some useful testing from the machine. After a proposed configure fix has been installed, re-enable NLS, verify configure fails as expected, *then* upgrade msgfmt. I disabled NLS, got a clean test run, and have now re-enabled nls so that people can test things if they care. Kris Jurka -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
