jhbuild build gnome-sudoku stopped working

[Igor Lopez <igor lopez bredband net>]

Hi,

After finding out that a bug in gnome-sudoku, affecting the revision distributed with Ubuntu 16.04, I wanted to build a "bug free" version to use instead.

I had jhbuild up and working but something was not correct with the built game.

The bug which was that the game always started with same board is fixed and I could observe that.

However when clicking on a cell the application crashed due to missing a gtk widget.

I did not take note which widget since I wanted to start with a clean slate, e.g. remvoved the jhbuild folders ./checkout and ./install and executed the commands:

 $ jhbuild sysdeps --install gnome-sudoku

 $ jhbuild build gnome-sudoku

which then fails on:

*** Konfigurerar appstream-glib *** [15/27]

~/jhbuild/checkout/appstream-glib/autogen.sh --prefix ~/jhbuild/install --disable-Werror --disable-stemmer --disable-static --disable-gtk-doc 

autopoint: *** The AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION declaration in your configure.ac

               file requires the infrastructure from gettext-0.19.8 but this version

               is older. Please upgrade to gettext-0.19.8 or newer.

autopoint: *** Stop.

*** Fel under fas configure för appstream-glib: ########## Fel vid körning av ~/jhbuild/checkout/appstream-glib/autogen.sh --prefix ~/jhbuild/install --disable-Werror --disable-stemmer --disable-static --disable-gtk-doc  *** [15/27]

I kept on reading jhbuild Newcomers page and got to the point on how to fix configure errors.

The problem is there does not exist an "gettext-0.19.8 or newer" version for Ubuntu 16.04

When checking:

  pkgs.org/download/gettext

gettext_0.19.7-2ubuntu3_amd64.deb is the latest version.

This worked yesterday but not today!

How do I solve this?