Re: Makefile.in.in fails when gettext not installed (patch)

[Bruno Haible]

Yann Dirson wrote:
> In the .po.gmo rule, we read:
>
>         cd $(srcdir) && rm -f $${lang}.gmo && $(GMSGFMT) -c --statistics -o
> t-$${lang}.gmo $${lang}.po && mv t-$${lang}.gmo $${lang}.gmo
>
> When gettext is not installed, GMSGFMT is ":", and always succeeds,
> although it does not create t-$${lang}.gmo, which makes the command
> fail, and with it the full package build.

This is normal and expected. When you make a release of a package, the
.gmo files ought to be up to date. You cannot do this if you don't have
GNU gettext installed. (Just like the 'configure' script ought to be up
to date, and you need to have GNU autoconf installed to get this done.)

Bruno