> I don't know if this is a 386-specific problem, but I've got a
> somewhat close to current userland running on a 386.  The message
> below happens whenever perror() is called, I think (judging by the
> fact that many types of file not present errors get reported this way
> by the 386).

Do you share /usr/share with both big and little endian machines?
That's what the error messages you quote suggest.

In any case, see my earlier message to current-users wrt. a new
machine independent message catalog implementation that just got
checked in today.

	--jtc