Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:16:31 -0400 From: Wesley Shields <wxs@atarininja.org> To: Marcin Simonides <marcin@studio4plus.com> Cc: Pedro Castro <pedro@pedrocastro.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GMSGFMT variable not defined Message-ID: <20070712181631.GH87426@atarininja.org> In-Reply-To: <4696562F.4050505@studio4plus.com> References: <4696562F.4050505@studio4plus.com>
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 06:26:23PM +0200, Marcin Simonides wrote: > I'm the maintainer of multimedia/gnome-subtitles port. The new version adds > language translations. > > I have added USE_GETTEXT=yes to the port's Makefile. > > There is a problem with building language translation files, variable > GMSGFMT is not being defined and so the rule below doesn't work: > > .po.gmo: > file=`echo $* | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ > && rm -f $$file && $(GMSGFMT) -o $$file $< > > I've checked with the program's aclocal.m4, it contains a line: > > AC_PATH_PROG(GMSGFMT, gmsgfmt, $MSGFMT) > > which looks right to me - GMSGFMT should be set to $MSGFMT if the program > is not found. msgfmt is being recognised by configure *but* both MSFGMT and > GMSGFMT are set to "nothing" in the program's po/Makefile. > > There is a check for msgfmt (successful) in the configure's output, but > none for gmsgfmt (the configure.am. > > My question is: are there any knobs, settings, dependencies etc. I should > use (the Porter's Handbook doesn't seem to mention anything like that) or > is this probably the program's configure issue? > > config.log available for request (unfortunately I have no idea how to > analyze it, I just saw that INTLTOOL_MSGFMT is being set to correct path > and G?MSGFMT to ''). > > This mail is also being sent to the author of the program. > Sorry that it's so chaotic, but I have no idea where to start looking for > the root of the problem and what information to provide. I ran into a similar problem when porting empathy (will be done soon, $JOB has been busy lately). I ended up finding science/gramps/files/patch-gmsgfmt and using a similar one. Maybe it will work for you too? -- WXS
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