Re: Unable to build current CVS: coreutils.pot not built

[Ed Avis]

On Sun, 9 May 2004, Andreas Schwab wrote:

>>>>I got a clean checkout, configured with './configure' and tried to
>>>>build with 'make'.  The build fails with
>>>>
>>>>make coreutils.pot-update

>>>You need to install gettext.

>>But shouldn't the configure script have a 'checking for gettext'
>>stage?
>
>It does, that's why xgettext is not called.

Is it a bug that coreutils would not build after configuring?  I
expected that if an important component such as gettext were missing,
it would report that and not write a makefile.

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Ed Avis <address@hidden>