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

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

On 28 April 2011 11:48, David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> 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)
>

All this and *much* *much* more pain caused by having ENV set to a
.shinit which resets PATH. See other thread "Unsetting ENV in pkgsrc"
re pkgsrc not sanitising ENV