Re: compile bug

[Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu>]

nuke@bayside.net writes:
> this is from a fresh CVS tree as of 3-10-98 at 4:30PM
> 
> make
> Makefile:404: macros/macros.dep: No such file or directory
> cd macros && make macros.dep
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/gnome-libs/macros'
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gnome-libs/macros'
> cd . && autoheader
> make all-recursive
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/gnome-libs'
> Making all in po
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/gnome-libs/po'
> PATH=../src:$PATH : --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
> mv: gnome-libs.po: No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [gnome-libs.pot] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gnome-libs/po'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gnome-libs'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

Tom Tromey <tromey@creche.cygnus.com> writes:
> I've seen this before, but I've never investigated what causes it.
> How did you configure?  ("head config.status" will tell you.)

You'll notice that usually `xgettext' is run to generate the .po file.
Here, however, `configure' decided that `xgettext' wasn't available, and
replaced it with `:'.

The correct fix: 

	rm -f config.cache; ./configure --with-included-gettext

- Hari
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