Re: gettext install problem :(

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Clytie,

> I was having inconsistent msgfmt results, compared with the auto
> check on the Gnome server, then I noticed that I was running an old
> version of gettext (0.10.4). It seems that when I updated fink, I
> lost my current gettext (0.14.4). So I'm installing it again.
>
> However, it fails on this error msg. I don't need to install emacs,
> do I? It doesn't suit me. :(
> ____________________________________________
> WARNING: Warnings can be ignored. :-)
> if test "emacs" != no; then \
>    set x; \
>    list='start-po.el po-mode.el po-compat.el'; for p in $list; do \
>      if test -f "$p"; then d=; else d="./"; fi; \
>      set x "$@" "$d$p"; shift; \
>    done; \
>    shift; \
>    EMACS="emacs" /bin/sh ../../build-aux/elisp-comp "$@" || exit 1; \
> else : ; fi
> Warning: arch-independent data dir (/usr/share/emacs/21.2/etc/) does
> not exist.
> Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/share/emacs/21.2/site-lisp' does not
> exist.
> Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp' does not exist.
> Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/share/emacs/21.2/leim' does not exist.
> Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp' does not exist.
> Cannot open load file: bytecomp
> make[3]: *** [elc-stamp] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> Pearl:/Applications/linguistic/gettext-0.14.4 clytie$

Actually 'emacs' is already installed, or part of fink, but apparently it's
incomplete. To fix up the situation for you, you need to edit the
gettext-tools/config.status file, changing the line

   s,@EMACS@,emacs,;t t

into

   s,@EMACS@,no,;t t

Then
   $ cd gettext-tools
   $ ./config.status
   $ cd ..
   $ make

and all everything should work.

I'll add configure option --without-emacs, to work around such problems.

Btw, this being a pure bug report about GNU gettext (not involving the
translation project), the right address to report it is bug-gnu-gettext
at gnu.org. Thank you anyway for the report.

Bruno