Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> Perhaps meson/configure should do a po -> mo -> gettext() check with a
> canned test message? That'd also make sure your msgfmt and libintl
> are compatible, something I worried about when I wrote about musl
> recently.
No, I don't think that's a good approach. That is testing the library
available at configure time, not the one you are actually running
with (possibly years later and on a different machine, even without
considering cross-compilation cases). I think we should do it
honestly with a regression test. It doesn't need to be very
complicated --- I think checking one message in one translation is
sufficient, so long as it includes a PRI?64 usage.
regards, tom lane
