[Rd] tools::update_pkg_po() doesn't work on Solaris?

[Michael Chirico]

Hi all,

I am about 99% sure tools::update_pkg_po() is using an invocation that
is not supported by the Solaris version of msgfmt.

The invocation[1]:

msgfmt -c --statistics -o /path/to/file.mo /path/to/file.po

AFAICT neither -c nor --statistics appear to be supported by Solaris [2]:

I don't have access to a Solaris machine where I can try this, but I
did manage to get r-hub to pass by disabling those options in potools
which similarly relies on msgfmt to generate .mo files [3], [4].

So I wanted to check with the list if anyone can confirm this before
filing a bug report.

Thanks,
Mike C

[1] per https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/59a1965239143ca6242b9cc948d8834e1194e84a/src/library/tools/R/translations.R#L142
[2] https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36870/msgfmt-1.html#REFMAN1msgfmt-1
[3] https://github.com/MichaelChirico/potools/pull/219
[4] https://builder.r-hub.io/status/potools_0.2.1.tar.gz-f4e936eec1b74bebb91e07c59c23b1cf