[Freeciv-Dev] Re: cvs compiling problem (PR#1128)

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 01:49:50PM +0100, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Reinier Post wrote:
> > What is the appropriate thing to do if msgfmt is not found?
> 
> The easiest solution is to kill NLS. The "--disable-nls" option does that,
> and it should be possible to do that automatically from within configure
> as well.
> 
> But msgfmt is missing on a lot of systems, my own up-to-date
> Debian/testing included. So why is it required? 

> Maybe we should add it to the sources and compile it along with
> freeciv?

This is IMHO a good idea. From another email:

\begin{quote}
> > >> Try upgrading the in-tree gettext to 0.10.40.  Do not apply unless
> > >> you are 100% you know what you're doing.
> > >
> > > The in-tree version is based on 0.10.38. The offical version of
> > > 0.10.38 contains the msgfmt tool. However the in-tree version
> > > doesn't.
> >
> > I'm not sure what you're trying to say.
> 
> offical version of gettext 0.10.38: contains msgfmt tool
> 
> version gettext which comes with freeciv: based on offical gettext
> 0.10.38 and doesn't contain the msgfmt tool
> 
> So the question is: why has the msgfmt tool not found its way into the
> freeciv version? Can it be added? How?

I just used the instructions I found for upgrading when I upgraded to
0.10.38. I don't know why it wasn't included then.
\end{quote}

So this is the same problem as with the AI: nobody knows why it is
this way. Can you add it?

        Raimar

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