msgfmt, then it should set the following in the package Makefile:
USE_TOOLS+= msgfmt
To deal with message files that use the "msgid_plural" statement,
which isn't supported in NetBSD<=3.x and also in gettext<=0.10.35, we
determine if the built-in "msgfmt" is sufficiently new enough to
understand "msgid_plural". If it isn't, then we use the msgfmt.sh
script to transform the msgid_plural statements to an equivalent
construct that's understood by older msgfmt tools.
The msgfmt.sh script is a straightforward translation of the original
perl script msgfmt.pl script by Julio M. Merino Vidal into shell and
awk, which are more lightweight dependencies than perl.
We remove the USE_MSGFMT_PLURALS bits in gettext-lib/builtin.mk as they
are made obsolete by the new code in mk/tools/msgfmt.mk.
BUILD_USE_MSGFMT is still supported but will be removed in a separate
commit.
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