GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 490845
Compilation does not finish if gettext package is not installed
Last modified: 2007-12-18 10:31:10 UTC
Documentation Section: INSTALL file. There is no mention of gettext dependency. This provides the msgfmt utility. Without it, compile process is not finished. Correct version: Mention that gettext is a dependency (or anything that provides msgfmt) Other information: Without this, there is a Makefile generated from ./configure process that has nothing set for msgfmt variable. Make exits in compiling the po folder, not completing the process. Also, "make install" is confused.
*** Bug 491496 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is not a vinagre issue, but is a more generic one. Assigning to intltool.
Fixed in SVN.
*** Bug 116516 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 492205 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 488235 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The fix for this bug went a bit too far. On Solaris, we need GNU msgmerge and xgettext for building GNOME, but Solaris msgfmt works just fine. So this is now breaking our build for no good reason. I've added a patch to our build that deletes the test for GNU msgfmt.
Created attachment 101168 [details] [review] patch that deletes the GNU msgfmt test