gettext failing in FreeBSD 6 RELEASE

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 04:41:29PM +0300, Yousef Raffah wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 17:25 +0400, Igor Robul wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 04:17:05PM +0300, Yousef Raffah wrote:
> > > I'm trying to install devel/gettext but unfortunately it is failing
> > > saying:
> > > 
> > > install-info
> > > --quite /usr/local/info/autosprintf.info /usr/local/info/dir
> > > install-info: No such file or directory
> > > for /usr/local/info/autosprintf.info
> > > *** Error code 1
> > > 
> > > What can I do to over come this?
> > cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/install-info
> > make
> > make install
> > 
> Unfortunately I don't have that directory, I only have /usr/src/sys
> Do I need to install all sources?

Yes - somehow you are missing this utility which comes standard with
FreeBSD.

Unless you're sure you're only missing this one program, though, it
will be best if you do a full recompile of the sources as described in
the handbook, to repair any other damage that may exist on your
machine.

Kris
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