Re: Loads of problems building RPM

[Jeff Johnson <jbj redhat com>]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 07:05:18PM -0400, Jim Ribar wrote:
> Jeff:
> 
> I removed the line with the PHONY thing on it, as well as the \.  With 
> the addition of a tab, the make file worked once again.  I have no idea 
> why the configure wrapper wont put the tab in front of the @echo line.  
> But I can get around that for now.
> 
> Which version of gettext should I be using?  I've tried 0.10.40, and 
> 0.11.2, and I still seem to get these problems:

Dunno (but I'm using gettext-0.11.2-3 ATM :-).

Why not configure with --disable-nls and punt on gettext?

...

> 
>  From looking at the code, it seems you have duplicated most of the 
> gettext libraries inside the source tree.  My system has become such a 
> mess I don't know what I have installed, and what versions i'm using 
> anymore for half of this stuff.  Which I guess is why I'm trying to get 
> this working after all.  Going to make a rpm repository, and come up 
> with a standard installation of packages that are recent, and work 
> together.

The intl directory is so that, on non-gettext aware systems, one
can configure with internal gettext.

Installing gettext is by far the best solution if you do need i18n.

73 de Jeff

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