Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> While trying to build (without the 'gettext' library that's required
>> for localization) I get the following error,
>>
>> Manifying 8 pod documents
>> SUBDIR templates
>> MSGFMT po/build/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/git.mo
>> /bin/sh: 1: msgfmt: not found
>> Makefile:2179: recipe for target
>> 'po/build/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/git.mo' failed
>> make: *** [po/build/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/git.mo] Error 127
>>
>> What could I be missing?
>
> There is
>
> ifndef NO_GETTEXT
> all:: $(MOFILES)
> endif
>
> which attempts to avoid generating *.mo files, but that does not
> seem to be working.
The above comes from one of the Tcl things (probably gitk-git)
For now
$ make NO_GETTEXT=1 NO_MSGFMT=1
may help.
NO_GETTEXT is "My build environment may or may not be capable of
doing the gettext things, but I choose not to use it in my build
result" but NO_MSGFMT is simply "I do not have the msgfmt tool".
Having to specify both is rather unfortunate and we may want to
streamline this.
