From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 15 18:12:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2300637B401 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 18:12:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jonc.itouch ([192.168.2.21]) by itouch.co.nz with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15tIma-0005j1-00; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:12:36 +1300 Received: (from jonc@localhost) by jonc.itouch (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9G1CZi59926; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:12:35 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:12:34 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Nathan Mace Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: windowmaker 7.0 fails to compile Message-ID: <20011016141234.A59818@jonc.itouch> References: <20011015210819.448db806.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011015210819.448db806.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu>; from mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:08:19PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 09:08:19PM -0400, Nathan Mace wrote: > when i try to compile windowmaker from the ports tree(version 7.0.x) it > compiles fine, but when i try to make install it...it fails on line 1975 > of the 'fi.po' file. i located this file and it only goes up to 1974 > lines! there is no line number 1975!!! what do i do? the error simply > reports a syntax error and quits First of all, make sure you've got the latest ports tree. Then deinstall gettext-0.10.38(?). IIRC, there was a bug in the msgfmt-new that prevented windowmakmaker from installing. It's since been fixed, and when you build windowmaker again, it'll build a new working version. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "You can get farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone" - Al Capone To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message