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   POSIX threads for long enough now to have them available on every 
   Solaris platform. 
 
+* 'make check' has been changed to validate translations by calling 
+  msgfmt with the -c option. As a result, it may fail on systems with 
+  older gettext implementations (GNU gettext < 0.14.1, or Solaris gettext). 
+  'make check' will also fail on systems where the C compiler does not
+  support ELF visibility attributes.
 
 Notes about GLib 2.6.0
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