Re: msgfmt found in path, but $MSGFMT empty

[John Faith]

Hello,

On 4/29/07, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello John,
>
> * John Faith wrote on Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 07:07:19PM CEST:
> > I am trying to configure Inkscape on OS X 10.3.9 with autoconf 2.61
> > from MacPorts.  In config.log, I see:
> >  INTLTOOL_MSGFMT='/opt/local/bin/msgfmt'
> >
> > , but later:
> >  MSGFMT=''
> >
> > , which causes the build to fail since the Makefile tries to call the
> > empty $(MSGFMT).
> >
> > I've seen 2 solutions to this problem, one was to set msgfmt path in
> > the generated Makefile, the other to set $MSGFMT and $GMSGFMT
> > environment variables.  Neither workaround seems quite right.
> >
> > In configure.ac, is it correct that 'AC_PROG_INTLTOOL(0.22)' is
> > responsible for finding intltoolize, msgfmt, etc. and setting the
> > paths to the executables?  Any ideas on how to approach this undefined
> > variable, or just try 'echo' in configure?
>
> This bug is very likely not an Autoconf bug, but an issue with
> third-party Autoconf macros.  Presumably, AC_PROG_INTLTOOL comes from
> GNOME's intltool package, and the MSGFMT setting from some gettext
> macros.  That's where you should probably continue searching.

Thanks for the pointer.  I was not able to determine the root cause of
this after looking through other macros, but adding
'AC_PATH_PROG(MSGFMT, msgfmt, msgfmt)' in my configure.ac seemed to
work around this problem.


> Hope that helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf

Yup, thanks!
,
John