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To: Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tom Goulet <tomg@xxxxxxxxxxx>, freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx, bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: make install tries to run --statistics (PR#990)
From: Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 11:30:59 +0100
Reply-to: rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:26:25AM +0100, Reinier Post wrote:
> 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.

Can we add a test for msgfmt in configure or po/Makefile to give a
better error messge?

        Raimar

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