Re: Handling built-in but old msgfmt

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 10 September 2012 17:16, Joerg Sonnenberger 
<joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 06:12:49PM +0200, Adam Ciarciński wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I have just updated mk/tools/msgfmt-msgctxt.awk to make graphics/gimp 
>> compile on systems where gettext-tools is not the latest. But I have a 
>> feeling this whole hack (see mk/tools/msgfmt*) with msgfmt should be removed 
>> and a proper dependency on devel/gettext-tools>=0.18.1 settled in its place. 
>> With the present setup it looks like not all messages get translated.
>>
>> Let's discuss the matter. :-)
>
> It doesn't work, NetBSD's libintl doesn't support the newer format.

Is what NetBSD's libintl is missing recorded anywhere?