From: Tom W. <to...@ad...> - 2005-10-19 03:17:39
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On Tuesday 18 October 2005 01:56, Alex Roitman wrote: > On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 07:13 -0400, Tom Weichmann wrote: > > I just installed SuSE 10 and connot compile GRAMPS 2.0.8. The configure > > script does not get too far: > > > > tom@linux:~/Desktop/gramps-2.0.8> ./configure > > checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c > > checking whether build environment is sane... yes > > checking for gawk... gawk > > checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes > > checking for gconftool-2... /opt/gnome/bin/gconftool-2 > > Using config source xml::/etc/opt/gnome/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults for > > schema installation > > Using $(sysconfdir)/gconf/schemas as install directory for schema files > > Using directory $(prefix)/share/mime for installation of mime type > > definitions checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt > > checking for msgconv... no > > configure: error: Couldn't find msgconv program. Please install the GNU > > gettext package. > > tom@linux:~/Desktop/gramps-2.0.8> > > > > I checked and gettext is installed, however there is no -devel package > > available. Anyone have any ideas? > > Do you have msgconv program? If not then you need to get it in order > to build from source. If you have it elsewhere then read on. > SuSE sometimes places things under /opt and then it sometimes does > not include them on your path. For compiling from source, you need > to be able to run 'msgconv' binary. So you can either find it and > create a symlink to it in any conventional place: > $ ln -s /real/path/to/msgconv /usr/bin/msgconv > > or add the location of msgconv to your path: > $ export PATH=$PATH:/real/path/to/msgconv > > However, you may also try the pre-built RPM of gramps, packaged > by Richard Bos. Here's the RPM for SuSE 10.1: > ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.0-i386/RPMS.suser-rbos/gramps- >2.0.8-0.suse1000.rb0.i586.rpm > > Alex Alex, Well I checked the gettext RPM for SuSE 10 and it does *not* have msgconv included with it. I checked the RPM from SuSE 9.3 (the last rendition) and of course it does include this. Interesting... Anyway, I grabbed the GRAMPS RPM which you suggested and everything works just fine. I would, however be interested to know how Richard made the RPM... Thanks again for your help, Tom Weichmann Happy Gramps User Since 0.2.0 |