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

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 08:44:06PM +0000, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote:
> 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?

Just rename msgfmt or change your PATH and you will see.

        Raimar

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