From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 05:41:51 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Add comment about a test that may fail.
X-Git-Tag: v0.20~22
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e6738649118d29842d8f9183892009cc77d437ba;p=thirdparty%2Fgettext.git

Add comment about a test that may fail.

Reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe.

* gettext-tools/tests/lang-csharp: Add comment about possible test failure.
---

diff --git a/gettext-tools/tests/lang-csharp b/gettext-tools/tests/lang-csharp
index 065489607..42dd440c6 100755
--- a/gettext-tools/tests/lang-csharp
+++ b/gettext-tools/tests/lang-csharp
@@ -5,6 +5,18 @@
 # Assumes an fr_FR locale is installed.
 # Assumes the following packages are installed: mono, mcs.
 
+# Note: This test fails when a GNU gettext version < 0.17 is installed with
+# the same --prefix as mcs. mcs apparently searches ${prefix}/lib before
+# searching the directory specified on the command line:
+#   $ mcs -out:program.exe -lib:../../gettext-runtime/intl-csharp -reference:GNU.Gettext program.cs
+#   program.cs(17,45): error CS0117: `GNU.Gettext.GettextResourceManager' does not contain a definition for `GetParticularPluralString'
+#   /usr/local/lib/GNU.Gettext.dll (Location of the symbol related to previous error)
+#   program.cs(18,45): error CS0117: `GNU.Gettext.GettextResourceManager' does not contain a definition for `GetParticularString'
+#   /usr/local/lib/GNU.Gettext.dll (Location of the symbol related to previous error)
+#   Compilation failed: 2 error(s), 0 warnings
+# The workaround is to install GNU gettext with the same --prefix, despite
+# the test failure, and run "make check" afterwards.
+
 # Test whether we can build and test C# programs.
 test "${CSHARP_CHOICE}" != no || {
   echo "Skipping test: configured with --disable-csharp"