Re: problem building on Mac OS X

["Lars Clausen" <lars raeder dk>]

Ben Abbott said:
> Dear list,
>
> I'm (still) having a problem building 0.96.1 under Mac OS X.
> Although I am able to run ./configure with no errors, the ./make
> fails unless I manually modify ./po/Makefile or ./po/Makefile.in.in
> in order to over-ride the definitions for GMSGFMT, MSGFMT, and XGETTEXT.
>
>       GMSGFMT = /sw/bin/msgfmt
>       MSGFMT = /sw/bin/msgfmt
>       XGETTEXT = /sw/bin/xgettext
>
> I'm very much a novice on the details of how "configure" works. Can
> someone school me on how to handle this in a way that isn't such a
> *hack*.

I'm away from my development machine until Tuesday, but the relevant place
to look is configure.in, which is where relevant programs are checked for
and variables are set.

-Lars