Subject: Re: Some problems with gettext after libintl is now in the basesystem
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/02/2000 08:00:01
>: for cat in $$catalogs; do \
>: case "$$cat" in \
>: *.gmo) destdir=$(gnulocaledir);; \
>: *) destdir=$(localedir);; \
>: esac; \
>: What should we do here?
>"We should have waited instead of rushed until we had a full implementation
>in basesrc?" However....
>: Remove the check for *.gmo and use always destdir=$(gnulocaledir) ?
>Actually, it would be best if `configure' recognized the in-tree libintl as
>"GNU" gettext, since it uses the same file format.
the issue here is that configure.in did not find msgfmt(1) and tries to
install *.gmo files (which are actually identical to *.mo format).
the easiest way is for those pkgsrc to have the following line:
BUILD_DEPENDS+= msgfmt:../../devel/gettext
it should solve the issue for now.
itojun