Re: gettext version problem exposed by buildfarm failures on "canary"

Tom Lane wrote:
> I see buildfarm member "canary" (NetBSD 1.6) was recently resurrected,
> but is failing to build HEAD, because msgfmt fails like this:
>
> po/es.po:8039: keyword "msgid_plural" unknown
> po/es.po:8036: missing `msgstr' section
> po/es.po:8039: parse error
>
> This indicates (1) canary needs a newer version of gettext, and
> (2) our configure test for a sufficiently new gettext installation
> is not in fact correct, because it didn't complain.

NetBSD has an odd mix of a BSD libintl and GNU msgfmt, so the library
provides both ngettext and bind_textdomain_codeset, but that has no
implications about what msgfmt supports.

pgfarm(at)netbsd:~$ msgfmt --version
msgfmt (GNU gettext) 0.10.35

Also, the man page for libintl says, "bind_textdomain_codeset() does not
work at this moment (always fail)."

So perhaps this platform is just a lost cause.