#154 x86_64 xgettext is a corrupt binary

[Abel Cheung]

/mingw64/bin/xgettext.exe is corrupt and unusable. It would produce nothing (no help, no file parsing, etc) and always exit with status code 127.

user@host MINGW64 ~
$ /mingw64/bin/xgettext.exe

user@host MINGW64 ~
$ /mingw64/bin/xgettext.exe --help

user@host MINGW64 ~
$ echo $?
127

On the other hand, the i686 one (/mingw32/bin/xgettext.exe) works fine.

[Alexx83]

Try reinstall gettext. It works for me

[Abel Cheung]

Thanks for reply; finally I discovered the 64bit binary can be fixed by reinstalling the 32bit version of package (pacman -Syy mingw-w64-i686-gettext). Reinstalling 64bit version doesn't not fix it at all. Is there any hidden problem behind such phenomenon?

[Abel Cheung]

BTW this report can be closed since nobody can reproduce it, perhaps just an unlucky day.