There are ON/Userland cross consolidation dependencies. The GNU gettext compatible feature currently supported by the gettext() functions in libc from the ON consolidation is based on the GNU MO format version 1.0, which matches the one that the GNU gettext 0.16.1 package supports. Whenever the GNU MO format version gets changed by updating the GNU gettext package in Userland, an appropriate update is also required to the gettext() functions in libc, and vice versa. For details, see the following PSARC cases: PSARC/2007/634 More compatibility with GNU gettext in gettext(3c) PSARC/2007/635 GNU gettext 0.16.1 PSARC/2013/346 GNU gettest 0.18.3 (updated to 0.19.3)