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

[Raahul Kumar <raahul_da_man@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Ben Webb <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thanks. Clear and to the point. I wonder if this explanation is in the Readmes.

> > > 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.
> 

I fully agree. I wasted a lot of time trying to locate msgfmt.



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