[texinfo-pretest] Problems with human language translations

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

karl at freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes:

>     Even worse, my "solution" only works for the latest release 4.8 but
>     not for the CVS version.  :-(
>
> Perhaps it is a matter of where the respective programs are looking for
> the translated messages (e.g., configure options).  Maybe strace or
> something would help debug it?

I don't know strace (just skimmed through the description) but it's
result is intriguing.  With makeinfo 4.8, I get

bronger at wilson:~/xml/rwth-zeitung/pool/doc> strace makeinfo --xml zml 2>&1 | grep -i locale
open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 5
read(5, "# Locale name alias data base.\n#"..., 4096) = 2528
open("/usr/lib/locale/de_DE/LC_TIME", O_RDONLY) = 5
open("/usr/lib/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES", O_RDONLY) = 5
open("/usr/lib/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/SYS_LC_MESSAGES", O_RDONLY) = 5
open("/usr/lib/locale/de_DE/LC_CTYPE", O_RDONLY) = 5
open("/usr/lib/locale/de_DE/LC_COLLATE", O_RDONLY) = 5
open("/usr/local//share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo", O_RDONLY) = 6

and with CVS makeinfo simply nothing!  As far as I can see, this
means that my CVS makeinfo does not even try to find the .mo file,
right?  However, I can't find any error message in the ./configure
or "make all" output.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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