[Freeciv-Dev] Re: make install tries to run --statistics (PR#990)

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 06:14:39PM -0700, Tom Goulet wrote:
> Good morning,
> 
> Freeciv version: CVS as of Oct 4 01:00 UTC, or so.
> OS: Debian testing
> 
> Here is the relevant output from "make install":
> 
> Making install in po
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/TomG/src/freeciv/po'
> file`echo da | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
>   && rm -f $file &&  --statistics -o $file da.po
> /bin/sh: --statistics: command not found
> make[1]: *** [da.gmo] Error 127
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/TomG/src/freeciv/po'
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> 
> In my makefiles GMSGFMT is set to an empty string.
> 
> I am guessing this happens because I don't have automake, autoconf, or
> perl installed.
> 
> -- 
> TomG

% rpm -qf `which msgfmt`
gettext-0.10.35-23

msgfmt comes with gettext, Freeciv apparently needs it, it supplies
its own gettext, but not msgfmt.

-- 
Reinier