Subject: Re: weird error
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Holo.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: current-users
Date: 10/29/1996 15:59:26
> Occasionally, when a program tries to print error output, I get this
> message:

> 	Message Catalog System: corrupt file

> What the heck is generating this, and how do I fix it?

The program is statically linked with a libc that predates the (only
relatively) recent changes to the error messages stuff.

> I've rebuilt world several times, with no effect.  I've grepped
> through the source tree looking for those strings, and can't find it.

Yeah - 'cause it ain't there any longer. :-)  The source tree you need
to grep through is the one from which the libc with which the program
was statically linked was built.  [You still with me after that
sentence? :-)]

> It's not a super big deal, but I'd like to make that go away.

Relink the affected program....

					der Mouse

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