> On NetBSD -current:
> 
> $    xgettext --language=perl 
> xgettext: no input file given
> Try `xgettext --help' for more information.
> 
> On NetBSD 3.0.1:
> 
> >    xgettext --language=perl 
> language `perl' unknown
> 
> What is the correct way to handle this with pkgsrc?
> 
> My error on 3.0.1 is:
> 
>  xgettext ... -Lperl
>  language `perl' unknown
> 
> The package I am working on (updated ikiwiki) is using:
> 
> DEPENDS+=       p5-Locale-libintl-[0-9]*:../../misc/p5-Locale-libintl
> DEPENDS+=       p5-gettext-[0-9]*:../../devel/p5-gettext
> USE_TOOLS+=	xgettext
> 
> Should I force this ikiwiki to use gettext-tools? What is the correct way?

For now, I just did:

  ln -sf /usr/pkg/bin/xgettext work/.tools/bin/xgettext

How do I tell USE_TOOLS to use pkgsrc version?

(I don't know anything about "xgettext --language=perl".)