Subject: Re: bug#37491: guix master build fails with msgmerge error

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:45:49 -0500

Hello,

Roel Janssen <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Mon, 2019-09-23 at 16:07 +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
>> msgmerge  --lang=en@quot [email-masked] guix.pot -o [email-masked]
>> .....................................................................
>> ....................... done.
>> make[5]: Leaving directory '/home/dannym/src/guix-heads-
>> v5/guix/po/guix'
>> make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/dannym/src/guix-heads-
>> v5/guix/po/guix'
>> rm -f [email-masked] && /gnu/store/h4v540l0p97mjy9ll9lc86cpz8m3l23f-
>> profile/bin/msgfmt -c --statistics --verbose -o [email-masked] 
>> [email-masked]
>> [email-masked]:2837: format specifications in 'msgstr[0]' are not a
>> subset of those in 'msgid_plural'
>> [email-masked]:2844: format specifications in 'msgstr[0]' are not a
>> subset of those in 'msgid_plural'
>> /gnu/store/h4v540l0p97mjy9ll9lc86cpz8m3l23f-profile/bin/msgfmt: found
>> 2 fatal errors
>> [email-masked]: 915 translated messages.
>> make[3]: *** [Makefile:201: [email-masked]] Error 1
>> 
>> Git commit: 3dd3ac4d83db0609e10637e9d21d7abb2198398d
>
> I'm getting the same error with commit
> 462ca0bbb73206569073814dd8daa7e2b6a2a048.
>
> Do you know how you solved this?
>
> Kind regards,
> Roel Janssen

That probably was an error in the translation files that got resolved.
Master currently builds fine.

Closing,

Thank you!

Maxim