Building Inkscape from trunk r9998 fails in 'po' with these messages:

Making all in po cd .. \ && CONFIG_FILES=po/Makefile.in CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_LINKS= \ /bin/sh ./config.status config.status: creating po/Makefile.in config.status: executing depfiles commands config.status: executing libtool commands config.status: executing default-1 commands config.status: executing po/stamp-it commands file=`echo de | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /Volumes/green/mp-inkscape/with-a-long-long-long-directory-name/bin/msgfmt -o $file de.po file=`echo fr | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && /Volumes/green/mp-inkscape/with-a-long-long-long-directory-name/bin/msgfmt -o $file fr.po LC_ALL=C /Volumes/green/mp-inkscape/with-a-long-long-long-directory-name/bin/intltool-merge -d -u -c ./po/.intltool-merge-cache ./po inkscape.desktop.in inkscape.desktop Found too-old cached translation database Generating and caching the translation database Merging translations into inkscape.desktop. de.po: Not in msg format:

<content of 'de.po' snipped>

WARNING: Bad markup found in translations. Please consider fixing the above problems.

After reverting 'po/de.po' to revision 9997 'make' finishes without failure.

@JazzyNico or @UweSch, could you take a look at the current version of 'po/de.po' committed in r9998?

~suv