Re: Handling newer msgfmt files in NetBSD

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:10:02AM +1300, Mark Davies wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Mar 2008, David Brownlee wrote:
> >     As of at least NetBSD-4.0 the shipped gettext cannot handle newer
> >     .po files which use context and fuzzy matches features.
> >
> >     For wip/ktorrent3 I wrote a nasty little awk script which
> >     just strips out those entries, which gets us a build.
> >
> >     Does anyone have any thoughts as to the best way to resolve this?
> 
> I've been meaning to ask the same question as it effects the .po files 
> in all of KDE4.    "msgctxt" is a feature of gnu gettext 0.15 so even 
> the current pkgsrc gettext package (which is 0.14.6) doesn't support 
> it.

Guess that means I finally have a reason for updating it...

Joerg