>>>> FWIW, I get the same error when building manually from SVN trunk on Ubuntu Edgy. I'm also using xgettext 0.15, because it's the latest version that's in the repos. However,
>>>> I don't think that's the sole problem because I can build fine on another (Debian) box which is running _0.14.4_... I know very little about `gettext`, but could this be
->>>> related to my language settings? On the Edgy box I have `LANGUAGE=en_GB:en` and `LANG=en_GB.UTF-8`. The `ikiwiki` package installs on Edgy with no problems. --Ben
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+>>>> related to my language settings? On the Edgy box I have `LANGUAGE=en_GB:en` and `LANG=en_GB.UTF-8`. The `ikiwiki` package installs on Edgy with no problems. --Ben
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+>>>>> You'll only see the problem if it needs to rebuild po/ikiwiki.pot,
+>>>>> which it generally doesn't if you're just building the package. If
+>>>>> you edit files and build, it will rebuilt the pot and then fail with
+>>>>> older gettexts. --[[Joey]]