在 2012年4月3日 下午11:44，Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> 写道： > On 04/03/2012 09:40 AM, Zhihua Che wrote: >> 在 2012年4月3日 下午11:02，Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> 写道： >>> On 04/03/2012 08:18 AM, Zhihua Che wrote: >>>> Hi, everyone >>>> >>>> I'm building the newest libvirt from git repository, of version >>>> 782afa98e4a5fa9a0927a9e32f9cf36082a2e8e7 >>>> and failed complaining as the following. >>>> >>>> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/harvey/open-projects/libvirt-build/po' >>>> cd ../../libvirt/po && : --update af.po libvirt.pot >>> >>> Why is the ':' there? Usually, this would be a call to one of the >>> gettext tools (msgmerge, in particular). >>> > >> I guess you're right, after I install gettext, building succeeds. >> >> I wonder if it's better that configure would fail when some packages >> wasn't ready. I didn't know I missed some packages because configure >> didn't output errors and any obvious warnings. > > Running ./autogen.sh should already be requiring minimum tools; look at > how bootstrap.conf has the $buildreq variable that includes gettext 0.17 > as a prereq. Maybe the problem is that you can have a system with > gettext but not msgmerge? What distro are you using, and what > package(s) did you install to get things working? How are the binaries > divided between packages? Do we need to add a line to $buildreq? > > -- > Eric Blake eblake@xxxxxxxxxx +1-919-301-3266 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org > I use ubuntu-11.10. I just issued "sudo apt-get install gettext" and things worked. What do you mean by "How are the binaries divided between packages?" ? I'd say in my system packages installed by apt-get are all installed in default directories, such as /usr/local
