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

[Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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?

What does the config.log look like?

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