Re: Can't compile gnome-libs

[Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis mindspring net>]

On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, John R Sheets wrote:

> Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
> 
> > McFly, read your email.
> 
> Likewise with you, Todd.  (c:  Felix already answered your original question:
(...)
> This means that you're lacking the latest gettext (v10.35), which includes
> gettextize.  When gettextize doesn't run, configure ends up with a whole
> string of strange errors.  The first error is usually the true cause.

Why, that just might be the answer.  A beer at the next Usenix for the
first person to commit a patch that gives a reasonable error in the face
of this condition!

Thanks, as always, to everyone who helped on this problem.

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