Hello John,
* John Faith wrote on Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 07:07:19PM CEST:
> I am trying to configure Inkscape on OS X 10.3.9 with autoconf 2.61
> from MacPorts. In config.log, I see:
> INTLTOOL_MSGFMT='/opt/local/bin/msgfmt'
>
> , but later:
> MSGFMT=''
>
> , which causes the build to fail since the Makefile tries to call the
> empty $(MSGFMT).
>
> I've seen 2 solutions to this problem, one was to set msgfmt path in
> the generated Makefile, the other to set $MSGFMT and $GMSGFMT
> environment variables. Neither workaround seems quite right.
>
> In configure.ac, is it correct that 'AC_PROG_INTLTOOL(0.22)' is
> responsible for finding intltoolize, msgfmt, etc. and setting the
> paths to the executables? Any ideas on how to approach this undefined
> variable, or just try 'echo' in configure?
This bug is very likely not an Autoconf bug, but an issue with
third-party Autoconf macros. Presumably, AC_PROG_INTLTOOL comes from
GNOME's intltool package, and the MSGFMT setting from some gettext
macros. That's where you should probably continue searching.