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

[Raahul Kumar <raahul_da_man@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
> 

How can the included gettext possibly fail????

> 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.
>

I fully agree. Your suggestion is the way to go.
 
> -- 
> Reinier
> 


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