[R-pkg-devel] gettext on Solaris

[Michael Chirico]

My new submission potools failed on Solaris:

https://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-patched-solaris-x86/potools-00check.html

Likely reason is that one or more of the SystemRequirements are missing (I
put gettext as a catchall in the DESCRIPTION but more specifically it needs
msgfmt, msgmerge, msginit and msgconv).

WRE mentions tests/examples should run without error when command-line
tools are unavailable, so I've added some escapes, but nevertheless I'm a
bit puzzled -- I expected these requirements would be easy to handle since
tools::update_pkg_po() has the same requirements.

Am I right that R's own default packages may be only partially functional
on CRAN checks?

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