On 06/08/21 16:50, Karel Zak wrote: > On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 05:22:49PM +0100, Qais Yousef wrote: > > While building v2.37 I hit the following build error > > > > : --update --no-wrap --previous --lang=ca ca.po util-linux.pot > > rm -f ca.gmo && : -c --statistics --verbose -o ca.gmo ca.po > > mv: cannot stat 't-ca.gmo': No such file or directory > > The po/ stuff is not required for "make", it's usually necessary for > "make distcheck" or so. It seems better to keep (x)gettext binary > installation optional for normal purpose. > > There is in ./configure output: > > checking whether NLS is requested... yes > checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt > checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt > checking for xgettext... no > checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge > > but you're right that it would be nice to have something more verbose. > I'll add something to ./autogen.sh. It was just a bit of a head scratch to figure out what went wrong. Wasn't that big of a deal really at the end, but thought it'd be good to get a better clue of what went wrong. > > > Should configure fail when it detects gettext is missing? > > There is difference between what we use as developers (from git repo) > and what get users by official tarball. The tarball already contains > compiled .(g)mo files. I guess, as end-user, you do not need to generate > anything in po/. Fair enough. Cheers -- Qais Yousef
