Re: problem building on Mac OS X

[Ben Abbott <bpabbott mac com>]

On Apr 7, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Lars Clausen wrote:

> 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

Thanks Lars,
However, I'm not able to figure out where/how any of these are  
set ... no rush here, but I'd appreciate if you or someone else could  
clue me in.
TiA