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

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 05:36:41AM -0800, Raahul Kumar wrote:
> 
> --- Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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 The current snapshots are badly out of date.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.
> > 
> 
> There seems to be a simple solution. Install gnu ngettext on all your boxes.
> 
> > > 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.
> > 
> 
> 
> I get the same problems compiling. It complains about my msgfmt version.

And what binary do you have? Does it handle the plurals? It is
possible that we check for the wrong version but 0.10.35 is known to
work.

        Raimar

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