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

[Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@xxxxxxxxx>]

David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, 
> Gerhard Killesreiter <killes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 16 Sep 2000, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote:
> 
> [ Compiling freeciv from CVS on system without GNU xgettext fails, 
>   due to lacking freeciv.pot; see also previous post ]
> 
> > > Alternatively, just configure with --disable-nls or
> > > --with-included-gettext, depending on whether you really want nls or
> > > not.
> 
> Using --with-included-gettext doesn't help in this case, since you
> still need to get freeciv.pot somehow.

I was under the impression that intl/ included its own command-line
tools.  My bad.

I think that "touch freeciv.pot" or somesuch would probably help the
compile to limp along, though it wouldn't be of any help if you
actually want to do translations.

> The re-cap, the workarounds are:
> 
> - install GNU gettext package to get GNU xgettext (then remove
>   config.cache and re-configure -- does this scenario introduce any
>   configure problems finding the right parts etc?)

Beware of a stale intl/libintl.h .  I don't think that's documented
anywhere.

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