On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 03:44:17PM +0200, Dominik Mahrer (Teddy) wrote: > Hi all > > I'm compiling git from source code on a mashine without msgfmt. This leads > to compile errors. To be able to compile git I created a patch that at least > works for me: Try: make NO_MSGFMT=Nope NO_GETTEXT=Nope This also works: make NO_GETTEXT=Nope NO_TCLTK=Nope The flags to avoid gettext/msgfmt are sadly different between git itself and git-gui/gitk, which we include as a subproject. It would be a useful patch to harmonize though (probably by accepting both in all places for compatibility). -Peff