Re: [Fink-devel] Gettext not detected?

[Daniel M. <dm...@ne...>]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 05:07:14PM +0100, Martin Costabel wrote:
> Murali Vadivelu wrote:
> > Dear Developers,
> > 
> > How do you fix the following problem? I am trying to compile a Gnome- 
> > based program outside Fink, before packaging it.
> > 
> > $ make
> > make  all-recursive
> > Making all in po
> > file=`echo af | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
> > 	  && rm -f $file &&  -o $file af.po
> > /bin/sh: -o: command not found
> > make[2]: *** [af.gmo] Error 127
> > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> Looks like configure didn't find the msgfmt program. Is it on your PATH? 
> Fink's would be in /sw/bin if you have gettext-tools installed.

You may have to force-feed the configure script or the makefile an
explicit path to it (via a MSGFMT=/sw/bin/msgfmt env var or 'make'
parameter respectively). Some implementations of the detection for it
don't use PATH intelligently.

dan

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