Re: [PATCH] git-sh-i18n: detect and avoid broken gettext(1) implementation

> Even though we can load gettext.sh the gettext(1) and eval_gettext
> functions it provides might be completely broken. This reportedly
> happens on some Cygwin installations where we can load gettext.sh, but
> gettext and eval_gettext both return exit code 127 and no output.
>
> The reason we're trying to load gettext.sh (or the equivalent Solaris
> implementation) at all is so we don't have to provide our own fallback
> implementation if the OS already has one installed, but because we
> didn't test whether it actually worked under GNU gettext we might end
> up with broken functions.
>
> Change the detection in git-sh-i18n so that it tests that the output
> of "gettext test" produces "test", on Solaris we already test that
> "gettext -h" produces "-h", so we were already guarded against the
> same sort of failure there.
>
> Reported-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
> ---
> Here's a minimal patch to git-sh-i18n that should make things work on
> Cygwin and any other platforms with broken gettext functions while
> also using the OS-provided functions if they work.