Under NetBSD 1.6.x I had these problems:

sysutils/gnome-vfs:

/usr/bin/msgfmt -o zh_TW.mo zh_TW.po
zh_TW.po:172: illegal control sequence
found 1 fatal errors
gmake[2]: *** [zh_TW.mo] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory
`/usr/pkg/tmp/pkgsrc/sysutils/gnome-vfs/work.rainier
/gnome-vfs-1.0.5/po'


devel/bonobo:

/usr/bin/msgfmt -o zh_TW.mo zh_TW.po
zh_TW.po:123: illegal control sequence
zh_TW.po:147: illegal control sequence
zh_TW.po:533: illegal control sequence
found 3 fatal errors


math/gnumeric:

/usr/bin/msgfmt -o zh_TW.mo zh_TW.po
zh_TW.po:2642: illegal control sequence
zh_TW.po:3840: illegal control sequence
zh_TW.po:3947: illegal control sequence
zh_TW.po:4047: illegal control sequence
zh_TW.po:5100: illegal control sequence
zh_TW.po:8634: illegal control sequence
zh_TW.po:9511: illegal control sequence
zh_TW.po:16293: illegal control sequence
zh_TW.po:16305: illegal control sequence
found 9 fatal errors
gmake[2]: *** [zh_TW.mo] Error 1


All these had a po/Makefile.in with:

GMSGFMT = @GMSGFMT@
MSGFMT = @MSGFMT@
XGETTEXT = @XGETTEXT@

I manually made these use /usr/pkg/bin/ versions (as installed from
wip/gettext-* packages).

The versions from GNU gettext 0.10.35 from the NetBSD are not good enough
for me.

Does anyone else have these issues under NetBSD?

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/