[Freeciv-Dev] ngettext test (CVS Snapshots)

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 05:56:25PM -0800, Raahul Kumar wrote:
> 
> --- Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Raahul Kumar wrote:
> > > 
> > > > The current snapshots are badly out of date. The latest snapshot
> > available is
> > > > February 5, the same goes for the diffs. The changelog is up-to-date.
> > Whoever
> > > > is in charge of the CVS snapshots should fix it.

[...]

> > If the problem hasn't been resolved tomorrow, please call again.
> 
> It's tomorrow. Ring ring ;).

OK, so it was a different bug, namely this:

23:46:26 Doing the cvs up.
23:46:53 Building the cvs file.
23:57:14 Building the freeciv.pot.bz2 and *.po.bz2 files.
00:01:09 Could not configure (missing po/Makefile).

It has been aborting on error here since Feb 5th, when Raimar made
./configure look for the 'ngettext' executable rather than 'gettext'.
It is an error to rely on filenames for version identification.
www.freeciv.org has an old GNU 'gettext' and a non-GNU 'gettext',
but no 'ngettext'.  My FreeBSD box has an old GNU 'gettext'
and an up-to-date GNU 'ngettext-new', but no 'ngettext'.

The command

  : | $gettext -V 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $NF; exit}'

returns "-V" on Solaris gettext, and the version number on GNU gettext,
so it may be a good test to check if $gettext is useable.
To cover all my platforms, at least 'gettext', 'ngettext' and
'ngettext-new' would have to be tried.

-- 
Reinier