msgmft segfaulting on tiger

["Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>]

Today I've debugged a compile of git 1.5.4.2 failing on OSX Tiger (on
Basilio's machine). The problem is during the git-gui build, in the PO
file handling. Apparently fmtmsg (from fink) segfaults on de.po so the
fix is to say

   make NO_MSGFMT=NoneThere

I don't think we can do much about it -- my guess is that fink has
been built and tested in a different OSX release, and happens to go
bellyup on Tiger. Here's a transcript in case it helps anyone.

Here's the tail of the build message, with make called with -d:

GITGUI_VERSION = 0.9.2
     * new locations or Tcl/Tk interpreter
     GEN git-gui
     INDEX lib/
     MSGFMT    po/de.msg make[1]: *** [po/de.msg] Error 1
 make: *** [all] Error 2

Various versions of things involved:
 $ dpkg -S /sw/bin/msgfmt
 gettext-tools: /sw/bin/msgfmt
 $ dpkg -l gettext-tools
(...)
 ii  gettext-tools                     0.10.40-19
 $ uname -a
 Darwin developer 8.11.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.1: Wed Oct 10
 18:23:28 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.25.20~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386
 $ msgfmt -V
 msgfmt (GNU gettext) 0.10.40
 Copyright (C) 1995-1998, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
 warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
 Written by Ulrich Drepper.

Has anyone got any ideas on how to debug this further? I couldn't find
any core files.

cheers,



martin