Re: gnumeric-1.2.4 won't compile

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 09:32, Duncan Baynes wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 08:13, Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> > I tried to compile the latest gnumeric but I'm getting a type of error
> > message I'm not familiar with.  I looked and there is no file called
> > po/.intltool-merge-cache.  Is this something that should be generated by
> > configure, or is something missing?
> > 
> > 
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/lfs/src/gnome/gnumeric-1.2.4'
> > Making all in .
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/lfs/src/gnome/gnumeric-1.2.4'
> > LC_ALL=C ././intltool-merge ./po gnumeric.desktop.in gnumeric.desktop -d
> > -u -c ./po/.intltool-merge-cache
> > The OrigTree module doesn't seem to be properly installed
> > ././intltool-merge
> >  
> > make[2]: *** [gnumeric.desktop] Error 2
> > 
> 
> Try typing "intltoolize -c -f" within the gnumeric directory then
> recompiling

Note that there are problems with the most recent (CVS and 0.28 release)
versions of intltool and gnumeric, so if you are wanting to use gnumeric
in non-English locales, you need to be a bit trickier. The problems are
not build-time problems -- it just does not translate some things (such
as XML entities) correctly.

Jody has been using an older intltool release (cvs update -D
"2003-10-01") to create the gnumeric tarballs, for example, as a way to
work around this problem.

Cheers,
Malcolm