[Freeciv-Dev] Re: gettext 0.10.37

[Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 20 May 2001, thue@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Next problem:
> 
> gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" 
> -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" 
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I../intl  -g -O2 -Wall  ngettext.c
> : -y -d --name-prefix=__gettext --output plural.c plural.y
> rm -f plural.h
> gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" 
> -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" 
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I../intl  -g -O2 -Wall  plural.c
> gcc: plural.c: No such file or directory
> gcc: No input files
> make[2]: *** [plural.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/data/freeciv-dev/gettext7/intl'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/data/freeciv-dev/gettext7'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> bash-2.05$

Make sure you have bison (the GNU incarnation of yacc) installed.  It
seems that configure is detecting it (since it's using long options in
the command line and stuff) but somehow belives that the command name
is ':', ie a colon.

What does

  $ bison --version

and

  $ yacc

say?

> I will just get around to looking at it in a moment.
> -Thue

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