catopen never fails, locale, NLS

[Brian Douglass]

I've just ported the latest version of an application I wrote on a Sun to a Linux 7.2 system.  Everything works except for the catalog messages system.  The catgets() never finds the message in the catalog.  Upon further investigation, I find that the catopen() function is silently failing and returning a bogus nl_catd descriptor and no error response (-1).  This same set of code worked fine on Linux 7.0.  I've got two Mandrake boxes and both exhibit the same problem, so I figure it is not a configuration/Envinornment issue (though you never know)

How would I go about finding the source code to catopen() and compiling a debug version to run through gdb?  I'm new to Linux, but have been doing Unix for 18 years, so I would appreciate a little guidance.  This problem is really hanging me up.
 

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