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Bug 583508 - autogen should warn about missing libtool in a comprehensible way
autogen should warn about missing libtool in a comprehensible way
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: pitivi
Classification: Other
Component: Build and packaging
Git
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: 0.93
Assigned To: Pitivi maintainers
Pitivi maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-05-22 00:21 UTC by Jean-François Fortin Tam
Modified: 2013-12-28 19:04 UTC
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Description Jean-François Fortin Tam 2009-05-22 00:21:31 UTC 
One of the problems I often see with newcomers is that they stumble on this error because libtool is missing: 


checking for dcgettext... yes
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
./configure: line 5876: syntax error near unexpected token `0.35.0'
./configure: line 5876: `IT_PROG_INTLTOOL(0.35.0)'
configure failed

Ideally, it should be made clearer that the user simply needs to install libtool.
Comment 1 Edward Hervey 2009-05-22 08:21:33 UTC 
intltool is part of the standard auto* suite, but yes the message should be more explicit :(
Comment 2 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2013-12-28 19:04:44 UTC 
commit b5dcb8544f578119734ba3d9fdb5d8ffd47e98cd
Author: Alexandru Băluț <alexandru.balut@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Dec 16 21:32:10 2013 +0100

    Show more info when intltool's IT_PROG_INTLTOOL macro is missing.
    
    Fixes https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583508