I'm having problems getting gettext to work. I've tried both Locale::gettext and Locale::TextDomain. The translation never happens, I always get 'Baz' back. Below is the code for both my attempts.

The locale datafile contains a msgid Baz which translates to 'New Baz' 

/home/cowboy/locale/x/LC_MESSAGES/test.mo

Attempt 1 (Locale::gettext)

use strict;
use Locale::gettext;
use POSIX qw(:locale_h);

setlocale( LC_ALL, 'x' );

my $d = Locale::gettext->domain('test');
$d->dir('/home/cowboy/locale');
print $d->get('Baz') . "\n";

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Second attempt (Locale::TextDomain)

use strict;
use Locale::TextDomain('test','/home/cowboy/locale');
use POSIX qw(:locale_h);

setlocale( LC_ALL, 'x' );

print $__{'Baz'} . "\n";

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Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm not tied to these modules, or even gettext if a better alternative is suggested.

Update: using strace on the execution of the programs, the first one does not seem to even attempt to look in the directory I specified, instead, trying /usr/lib/locale. The second does a stat on the file, but doesn't actually attempt to open it.

In reply to Problems using gettext in perl. by cowboy

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