[Freeciv-Dev] Re: ngettext test (CVS Snapshots)

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:18:21AM +0100, Reinier Post wrote:
> 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 The current snapshots are badly out of date.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'.

We don't check for a ngettext binary. We check for a ngettext
function.

> 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.

Output from ./configure --with-included-gettext at cvs.freeciv.org:
...
checking for nl_langinfo and CODESET... yes
checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking whether included gettext is requested... yes
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
found xgettext program is not GNU xgettext; ignore it
checking for bison... bison
checking version of bison... 1.28, ok
checking for catalogs to be installed...  da de en_GB es fi fr hu it ja nl no 
pl pt pt_BR ro ru sv
checking for GNU xgettext version >= 0.10.38... no
configure: warning: You may have problems with creating pox files. Please 
update your gettext package.
checking for GNU msgfmt version >= 0.10.35... no
configure: error: You are unable to create *.gmo files.
This is development version which doesn't include them. Please update your
gettext package. We recommend you versions >= 0.10.38. Or use
--disable-nls instead.

So a msgfmt binary which can handle the plurals is missing.

        Raimar

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