[libvirt-users] [Building Error] cannot stat `t-af.gmo': No such file or directory

[Zhihua Che]

在 2012年4月3日 下午11:44，Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com> 写道：
> On 04/03/2012 09:40 AM, Zhihua Che wrote:
>> 在 2012年4月3日 下午11:02，Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com> 写道：
>>> On 04/03/2012 08:18 AM, Zhihua Che wrote:
>>>> Hi, everyone
>>>>
>>>>     I'm building the newest libvirt from git repository, of version
>>>> 782afa98e4a5fa9a0927a9e32f9cf36082a2e8e7
>>>> and failed complaining as the following.
>>>>
>>>> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/harvey/open-projects/libvirt-build/po'
>>>> cd ../../libvirt/po && : --update af.po libvirt.pot
>>>
>>> Why is the ':' there? Usually, this would be a call to one of the
>>> gettext tools (msgmerge, in particular).
>>>
>
>> I guess you're right, after I install gettext, building succeeds.
>>
>> I wonder if it's better that configure would fail when some packages
>> wasn't ready. I didn't know I missed some packages because configure
>> didn't output errors and any obvious warnings.
>
> Running ./autogen.sh should already be requiring minimum tools; look at
> how bootstrap.conf has the $buildreq variable that includes gettext 0.17
> as a prereq.  Maybe the problem is that you can have a system with
> gettext but not msgmerge?  What distro are you using, and what
> package(s) did you install to get things working?  How are the binaries
> divided between packages?  Do we need to add a line to $buildreq?
>
> --
> Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
>

I use ubuntu-11.10.

I just issued "sudo apt-get install gettext" and things worked.

What do you mean by "How are the binaries divided between packages?" ?
I'd say in my system packages installed by apt-get are all installed
in default directories, such as /usr/local