Re: devel/GConf fails to build on -current "#~| msgid"

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

On 28 April 2011 03:12, OBATA Akio <obache%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:26:57 +0900, David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> 
> wrote:
>
>> Just updated pkgsrc on my amd64 boxes and the netbsd-5 box builds
>> devel/GConf fine, but the 5.99.49 box (using identical config) fails
>> to build with
>>
>> es.po:2725:4: parse error
>> es.po:2725: missing `msgstr' section
>>
>> The offending line is the first of the block:
>>
>> #~| msgid "Could not send message to gconf daemon: %s"
>> #~ msgid "Could not send message to GConf daemon: %s"
>> #~ msgstr "No se pudo enviar un mensaje al demonio de GConf: %s"
>>
>> commenting out the block on that and three other .po files allows the
>> build to complete.
>>
>> Both netbsd-5 and 5.99.49 boxes report a msgfmt of 0.14.4.
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this - anything I'm missing?
>
> I feel it should be handled in pkgsrc/mk/tools/msgfmt-msgctxt.awk,
> so awk issue on 5.99.49?

As a test I tried copying /usr/bin/awk from the netbsd-5 box to the
5.99.49 box and reran but without luck. :( This is *extremely*
strange.
I'm going to try building GConf on each system with a minimal mk.conf
to see if it affects things (even though the mk.conf is identical on
both)