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

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 11:30:59AM +0100, Raimar Falke 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?

The attached patch does this. The test is a bit late but better than
nothing.

        Raimar

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