# HG changeset patch
# User pjenvey
# Date 1190954695 0
# Node ID d0c6014c46a125ab802ff0faa3740cac4ee0c534
# Parent  f919257d4fc7e055c8ca312bc128d30ef5b07810
we must mean options.locale here

diff --git a/babel/messages/frontend.py b/babel/messages/frontend.py
--- a/babel/messages/frontend.py
+++ b/babel/messages/frontend.py
@@ -717,7 +717,7 @@
                 if not options.directory:
                     parser.error('you must specify either the input file or '
                                  'the base directory')
-                mo_files.append(os.path.join(options.directory, locale,
+                mo_files.append(os.path.join(options.directory, options.locale,
                                              'LC_MESSAGES',
                                              options.domain + '.mo'))
         if not po_files: