[snip] (. gettext.sh; eval_gettext frotz; echo $?) frotz0 > What is curious about your system is that git-sh-i18n.sh should have > figured out that you want INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME to be gnu by > itself, without any need for "make USE_GETTEXT_SCHEME=gnu", with > these lines: > > ... > elif type gettext.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 > then > # GNU libintl's gettext.sh > GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME=gnu > elif test ... > > as long as you have /sw/bin/gettext.sh on your PATH, that is. > > So I am not sure what's broken. ===================== When I run the following scriptlet, extracted from git-sh-i18n ===================== #!/bin/sh GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME=fallthrough if test -n "" then GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME="" elif test -n "@@USE_FALLTHROUGH_GETTEXT_SCHEME@@$GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_TEST_FALLBACKS" then echo ": no probing necessary" elif test -n "$GIT_GETTEXT_POISON" then echo GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME=poison elif type gettext.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 then # GNU libintl's gettext.sh echo GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME=gnu elif test "$(gettext -h 2>&1)" = "-h" then # gettext binary exists but no gettext.sh. likely to be a gettext # binary on a Solaris or something that is not GNU libintl and # lack eval_gettext. echo GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME=gettext_without_eval_gettext fi ====================== I get : no probing necessary ===================== The generated git-sh-i18n is identical under both Ubuntu and Mac OS X. (Except that Mac OS uses /Users instead of /home) And may be the diff between git-sh-i18n.sh and the generated git-sh-i18n can give a hint: diff git-sh-i18n.sh git-sh-i18n 13c13 < TEXTDOMAINDIR="@@LOCALEDIR@@" --- > TEXTDOMAINDIR="/Users/tb/share/locale" 21c21 < if test -n "@@USE_GETTEXT_SCHEME@@" --- > if test -n "" 23c23 < GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME="@@USE_GETTEXT_SCHEME@@" --- > GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME="" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html