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xgettext/msgfmt: header problems

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From: KP
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:49
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Hello all,

On my first steps trying to NLSify a Perl program I am running into 
problems. After running xgettext to extract the gettext() string sequences, 
msgfmt bails out reporting an invalid header:

bash-2.03$ msgfmt -v test.po
test.po: warning: no header entry found
found 1 fatal errors

The first few lines of test.po are:

# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
# Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
#
#, fuzzy
msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2000-12-28 22:10+0100\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: ENCODING\n"

Are these lines the header? I have thoroughly checked the info pages on 
gettext, xgettext and msgfmt but I was 
unable to locate anything wrt a header entry.

Oh, running SuSE 6.3 with gettext utilities version 0.10.35
Any help appreciated.
Cheers,

-- 
KP
koos_pol@raketnet.nl
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Subject: xgettext/msgfmt: header problems
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