trouble w/ gnome-libs

[Ben Brown <ben netdoor com>]

I just checked out gnome-libs and while trying to compile it I got the
bellow error. 

In order to get pass this I just took out the '\n' on line 744 of fr.po

Was this the wrong thing to do? Do I have to bum software?

//Ben Brown (ben@netdoor.com

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[..snip..]

Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/gnomecvs/gnome-libs/po'
PATH=../src:$PATH /usr/bin/xgettext --default-domain=gnome-libs
--directory=.. \
  --add-comments --keyword=_ --keyword=N_ \
  --files-from=./POTFILES.in
rm -f ./gnome-libs.pot
mv gnome-libs.po ./gnome-libs.pot
rm -f cat-id-tbl.tmp
sed -f ../intl/po2tbl.sed ./gnome-libs.pot \
| sed -e "s/@PACKAGE NAME@/gnome-libs/" > cat-id-tbl.tmp
if cmp -s cat-id-tbl.tmp ./cat-id-tbl.c; then \
  rm cat-id-tbl.tmp; \
else \
  echo cat-id-tbl.c changed; \
  rm -f ./cat-id-tbl.c; \
  mv cat-id-tbl.tmp ./cat-id-tbl.c; \
fi
cat-id-tbl.c changed
cd . && rm -f stamp-cat-id && echo timestamp > stamp-cat-id
file=./`echo de | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
  && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH /usr/bin/msgfmt -o $file de.po
file=./`echo fr | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
  && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH /usr/bin/msgfmt -o $file fr.po
fr.po:741: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both end with '\n'
found 1 fatal errors
make[2]: *** [fr.gmo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gnomecvs/gnome-libs/po'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/gnomecvs/gnome-libs'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2