GMSGFMT variable not defined

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:26:23 -0500, Marcin Simonides  
<marcin at studio4plus.com> 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.

Can you show us the configure output?

Cheers,
Mezz

> 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.


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