[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Compilation blues on IRIX (PR#560)

[Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@xxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Wooledge <wooledge@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Gaute B Strokkenes (gs234@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> 
> > Gerhard Killesreiter <killesreiter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > > checking for msgfmt... msgfmt
> > > checking for gmsgfmt... msgfmt
> > > checking for xgettext... :
> 
> > Looking through the aclocal.m4 that comes with gettext, it appears
> > that this is actually intentional.  (The colon is the shell no-op.)
> 
> Gerhard will most likely need to install the GNU gettext package, then
> remove config.cache and rerun ./configure.  If it still fails after
> that, then report back with the new configure output.

Sure that would cure the symptoms, as would --with-included-gettext or
--disable-nls.  However, it doesn't address the underlying issue,
which is that configure produces a Makefile that doesn't (really) work.

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