[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Success at last with Sound #15

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 09:03:05AM +0100, Raimar Falke wrote:

> > I did not have gettext-devel installed. The error message needs to be 
> > improved.
> > I had no idea what package msgfmt was hiding in.
> 
> It clearly stated that you don't have msgfmt >= 0.10.35 installed. I
> don't see a problem in the msg.

The problem is in the second sentence above.  I get this:

% ./configure --with-included-gettext
[...]
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.

My /usr/bin/msgfmt isn't GNU, but it doesn't report this.

It is also confusing to see a message about a wrong gettext version
when I used --with-included-gettext.

So I would change the error message to something like:

checking for GNU msgfmt version >= 0.10.35... no
configure: error: You are unable to create *.gmo files.
This development version doesn't include them, and we can only
generate the msgfmt executable from GNU gettext >= 0.10.38.
No such msgfmt executable was found.  Please install one,
or use --disable-nls.

A flag --with-gettextutils-prefix would also help, because it would
report the difference between gettext and gettextutils in the help.

-- 
Reinier