Hi Mike, I've posted this on the issue you linked to:
It doesn't have to use multicore. Going to the gsearchtool/help/pt directory and repeatedly saying itstool -m pt.mo ../C/index.docbook ../C/legal.xml will eventually cause an exception in itstool. So then the question becomes, what is this? an error in the input data (that shouldn't cause a crash of course), in itstool, in libxml2 or what? I forgot to mention in there, you may have to let the makefile run first so at least you have a partial set of files that will allow itstool to run. Also, the line rm /home/lars/mate-utils-1.20.2/gsearchtool/help/pt/{index.docbook,legal.xml,pt.mo,pt.stamp} has been helpful in forcing the failing command to run using the makefile. /Lars