I see the same issue with gencat (GNU libc) 2.2.5.  As for the
workaround, it might be safer to set LC_CTYPE=en_US so that any
errors from gencat are (hopefully) displayed with the user's
preferred language.

I get no errors when using:

    env - LC_CTYPE=en_US make

Regards,
+ Kim
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Kimmo Suominen

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 06:39:04PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I think that error is from gencat. I have gencat (GNU libc)  2.3.2.
> I worked around this by setting LANG=et_EE in my environment: