Klaus Heinz wrote:

> building textproc/textutils fails for me on Solaris8/sparc with
> gcc 2.95.3. 'msgfmt' reports 12 errors while processing el.po:


Some missing information:

  trying to build DISTNAME=textutils-2.0

  $ /opt/pkg/bin/msgfmt  -V
  msgfmt (GNU gettext) 0.11.5
  Copyright (C) 1995-1998, 2000-2002 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.

  $  pkg_info -e gettext
  gettext-0.11.5nb1

  $ /usr/bin/msgfmt -o el.mo el.po 
  $

Solaris' /usr/bin/msgfmt obviously works.

ciao
     Klaus