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

[Ben Webb <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 01:10:36AM -0800, Raahul Kumar wrote:
> --- Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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????

        The included gettext only contains code to display translations; it
doesn't contain the sources for the various support binaries (e.g. msgfmt)
which are needed to generate the translation catalogs in the first place.
This is why *.gmo files are included in the release tarballs.

> > 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.

        I would add "this may be found in your distribution's gettext or
gettext-devel package" for extra clarity.

        Ben
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