Hello. There is a long discussion about .mo file endianness in this Debian bug report:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=671257 As a result, I applied the attached patch to the Debian package, which makes our work a lot easier, specially for multiarch. I wonder if it would be possible to have some sort of option which I can pass to ./configure to achieve this behaviour so that modifying msgfmt.c directly was not needed. Thanks.
From: Santiago Vila <[email protected]> Subject: Modified msgfmt to always create little endian .mo files Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/671257 X-Debian-version: 0.18.1.1-8 --- a/gettext-tools/src/msgfmt.c +++ b/gettext-tools/src/msgfmt.c @@ -233,6 +233,9 @@ /* Set default value for global variables. */ alignment = DEFAULT_OUTPUT_ALIGNMENT; + /* Changed by Debian: Default is little-endian, not native */ + byteswap = ENDIANNESS; + /* Set program name for messages. */ set_program_name (argv[0]); error_print_progname = maybe_print_progname;
