Re: gnome-utils does not compile

[Bill Day <billday bellatlantic net>]

Malcolm Tredinnick correctly diagnosed the problem in case #1 below; my 
standard RedHat 7.1 install had gettext-10.35.  gnome-utils compiled 
properly once I upgraded to 10.38.

Many thanks for the help.

Sincerely,

Bill Day


At 01:00 PM 7/31/2001 +0800, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:12:55AM -0400, Bill Day wrote:
> > I am trying to compile gnome-utils from cvs so that I can work on the
> > logview documentation.  I am using the following commands in bash on
> > RedHat 7.1 with Ximian Gnome:
> >
> > ./autogen.sh --prefix='gnome-config --prefix' --sysconfdir='gnome-config
> > --sysconfdir'
> >
> > make dist
> >
> > The compiler quits with the following error messages:
> > 
> .................................................................................. 
> done.
> > 688 translated messages, 43 fuzzy translations, 88 untranslated messages.
> > 
> .................................................................................. 
> done.
> > 528 translated messages, 113 fuzzy translations, 178 untranslated messages.
> > zh_TW.Big5.po.old:995: illegal control sequence
> > zh_TW.Big5.po.old:2462: illegal control sequence
> > zh_TW.Big5.po.old:3439: illegal control sequence
> > found 3 fatal errors
> > zh_TW.Big5.po:995: illegal control sequence
> > zh_TW.Big5.po:2462: illegal control sequence
> > zh_TW.Big5.po:3439: illegal control sequence
> > found 3 fatal errors
> > 
> .................................................................................. 
> done.
> > 338 translated messages, 161 fuzzy translations, 320 untranslated messages.
> > zh_TW.Big5.po:995: illegal control sequence
> > zh_TW.Big5.po:2462: illegal control sequence
> > zh_TW.Big5.po:3439: illegal control sequence
> > found 3 fatal errors
> > make[1]: *** [zh_TW.Big5.gmo] Error 1
> > make: *** [distdir] Error 1
> >
> >
> > Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
>
> OK, This is caused by mismatched versions of gettext that you have and
> that the po files are expecting.
>
> Case #1: you have a gettext earlier than 10.38 (probably 10.35 if you
> haven't upgraded from the standard Red Hat 7.1 install).
>
>         Solution: upgrade to gettext 10.38 which handles some multibyte
>         combinations better (a.k.a "correctly"), especially in the Big 5
>         case.
>
> Case #2: You already have gettext 10.38. In this case, the po files
> haven't been upgraded.
>
>         Solution: Open up the zh_TW.Big5.po file and on each line numbe
>         that is reported in the error, look for a \\ sequence (two
>         backslashes in a row). Remove one of the the backslashes in each
>         occurrence. Try again and it should work this time.
>
> Cheers,
> Malcolm
>
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