Add comments about test failures with --disable-nls.

* gettext-tools/tests/lang-bash: Add comment.
* gettext-tools/tests/lang-sh: Likewise.
* gettext-tools/tests/lang-c: Likewise.
* gettext-tools/tests/lang-c++: Likewise.
* gettext-tools/tests/lang-objc: Likewise.

5 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gettext-tools/tests/lang-bash b/gettext-tools/tests/lang-bash
index a5ec2b044..6c68a8bdc 100755
--- a/gettext-tools/tests/lang-bash
+++ b/gettext-tools/tests/lang-bash
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@
 # output when accessing any .mo file not generated from a .po file in UTF-8
 # encoding.
 
+# This test fails if the gettext package was configured with --disable-nls,
+# because in this case the gettext-runtime/src/gettext program does not do
+# any message catalog lookups.
+
 cat <<\EOF > prog.bash
 #! /bin/bash
 
diff --git a/gettext-tools/tests/lang-c b/gettext-tools/tests/lang-c
index 2babb08ae..ad6be73f7 100755
--- a/gettext-tools/tests/lang-c
+++ b/gettext-tools/tests/lang-c
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
 # Assumes an fr_FR locale is installed.
 # Assumes the following packages are installed: gcc.
 
+# This test fails if the gettext package was configured with --disable-nls,
+# because in this case the gettext-runtime/intl/ directory does not produce
+# a <libintl.h> header file.
+
 cat <<\EOF > prog.c
 #include "config.h"
 #include <libintl.h>
diff --git a/gettext-tools/tests/lang-c++ b/gettext-tools/tests/lang-c++
index 105e70e25..cad6af8bb 100755
--- a/gettext-tools/tests/lang-c++
+++ b/gettext-tools/tests/lang-c++
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
 # Assumes an fr_FR locale is installed.
 # Assumes the following packages are installed: gcc g++.
 
+# This test fails if the gettext package was configured with --disable-nls,
+# because in this case the gettext-runtime/intl/ directory does not produce
+# a <libintl.h> header file.
+
 # Test whether a C++ compiler is found and libasprintf is built.
 test "${CXX}" != "no" || {
   echo "Skipping test: no C++ compiler found"
diff --git a/gettext-tools/tests/lang-objc b/gettext-tools/tests/lang-objc
index 25ca2119d..bc2578cc1 100755
--- a/gettext-tools/tests/lang-objc
+++ b/gettext-tools/tests/lang-objc
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
 # Assumes an fr_FR locale is installed.
 # Assumes the following packages are installed: gcc.
 
+# This test fails if the gettext package was configured with --disable-nls,
+# because in this case the gettext-runtime/intl/ directory does not produce
+# a <libintl.h> header file.
+
 # Test whether an ObjectiveC compiler is found.
 cat <<\EOF > hello.m
 #include <stdio.h>
diff --git a/gettext-tools/tests/lang-sh b/gettext-tools/tests/lang-sh
index 2737f3acc..5f0173264 100755
--- a/gettext-tools/tests/lang-sh
+++ b/gettext-tools/tests/lang-sh
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@
 # Note: This test fails on BeOS because there all locales use the UTF-8
 # encoding, even the locale fr_FR, thus the output comes out in UTF-8.
 
+# This test fails if the gettext package was configured with --disable-nls,
+# because in this case the gettext-runtime/src/gettext program does not do
+# any message catalog lookups.
+
 cat <<\EOF > prog.sh
 #! /bin/sh