Description of problem: Directory msgs/ in man source tree is contained the text messages of the man program Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): man-1.5k-6 from rawhide How reproducible: try to build and see build outputs Expected results: gencat tool must be set locale to 'true' value Additional info: In msgs directory I run make manually. Please, see result [andy@andriy msgs]$ LANG=C make 2>&1 | grep message\ ignored | cut -f1 -d: | sort -u mess.cs.catin mess.da.catin mess.de.catin mess.es.catin mess.fi.catin mess.fr.catin mess.hr.catin mess.it.catin mess.ja.catin mess.nl.catin mess.pl.catin mess.pt.catin mess.ru.catin mess.sl.catin [andy@andriy msgs]$ LANG=en_US make 2>&1 | grep message\ ignored | cut -f1 -d: | sort -u [andy@andriy msgs]$
So how does one set the LANG so that all the messages are built, rather than just one (such as en_US in your example?)