sys-devel/gettext does not provide gnu/gettext/GetURL, which is required for correct working msginit. gnu/gettext must be in /usr/lib/gettext/gettext.jar, or, if gcj is exists, placed as executable at /usr/lib/gettext/gnu.gettext.GetURL Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. # USE="-gcj" emerge gcc && emerge gettext 2. copy pot-file from attachment #1 [details] to some directory 3. in that directory try to run $ msginit -l fr PS: "fr" may be substituted by any other language code (ru, es, de, ...) Actual Results: The new message catalog should contain your email address, so that users can give you feedback about the translations, and so that maintainers can contact you in case of unexpected technical problems. Is the following your email address? maratik@tux Please confirm by pressing Return, or enter your email address. ### error here vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv ### Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: gnu/gettext/GetURL ### error here ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ### A translation team for your language (fr) does not exist yet. If you want to create a new translation team for en, please visit http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/teams.html http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/leaders.html http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/index.html Created fr.po. Expected Results: The new message catalog should contain your email address, so that users can give you feedback about the translations, and so that maintainers can contact you in case of unexpected technical problems. Is the following your email address? maratik@tux Please confirm by pressing Return, or enter your email address. ... Created fr.po. Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r6 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz Timestamp of tree: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:00:02 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openjms/config /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="" LINGUAS="ru en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="7zip X Xaw3d a52 aac acpi akode alsa amd64 amr amrnb amrwb arts artswrappersuid audiofile avalon-framework avalon-logkit bash-completion bcp berkdb bitmap-fonts bjam bl blender-game boehm-gc bzip2 cairo cdr cli cpudetection cracklib crypt cscope curl cyrillic d dbus dia djbfft djvu dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread dvi eds emacs emboss enca encode esd evo exif expat extrafilters fam fame ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fortran fpx ftp games gd gdbm gif gimp glib glibc-omitfp glitz gnome gnutls gpm grace graphics graphviz gs gstreamer gtk gtkhtml hal hdri hipe hyphenation iconv icu id3 imagemagick imlib inkjar isdnlog ithreads jai java javascript jbig jce jms jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kpoll ladspa lame latex lcms libnotify libsamplerate live log4j logrotate lua lzo lzw mad midi mikmod mjpeg mmap mmx mmxext mng motif mp2 mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mudflap musepack music nas ncurses nemesi netcdf netpbm network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin numeric offensive ogg openal openexr opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl player plotutils plugins png pnm posix postscript pppd pstricks python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rar raw rdesktop readline reflection reiserfs rle ruby science sdl servletapi session slang smp sndfile speex spell spl sqlite sqlite3 srt sse sse2 ssl ssse3 svg tcl tcpd tetex theora threads tiff tk tordns truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vim vim-pager vim-syntax vim-with-x vorbis vorbis-psy wideband wmf wxwindows x264 xanim xetex xine xiph xml xorg xpm xv xvid xvmc yv12 zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard vmmouse void" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="ru en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vga vmware" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= sys-devel/gettext-0.17 was built with the following: CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" USE="nls" sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2 was built with the following: CFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -mtune=nocona -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -mtune=nocona -pipe"
Created attachment 142279 [details] amhello.pot The file to run with "msginit -l fr"
The same bug was discussed in debian bugzilla: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=244215
This should be fixed with gettext-0.18
should be fixed with gettext-0.18. no plans on fixing older versions.
