Re: gettext 0.18 grumbles

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 08:10:47PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 08:40:40PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > Non-trivial to build? It is essential for GNU packages to be buildable
> > with "configure && make && make install". Did you try that? It does have
> > some dependencies, but you should be able to install these dependencies
> > with a package manager.
> 
> Well OK - I was trying to build an RPM from the existing Fedora
> Rawhide spec, however gettext 0.18 doesn't generate
> '/usr/share/gettext/archive.tar.gz' and that was where I got stuck.

To expand on this theme, I need to have a gettext 0.18 that others in
the team can easily install, and that before anyone tries to compile
from git.  It's already a huge problem compiling on RHEL 5 because it
has an ancient version of gettext, and even some Fedora developers are
still using Fedora 11 or 12.

Thus before I can push the updated gnulib in libguestfs to git, I need
to make or find gettext 0.18 RPMs for Fedora 11(?), 12, 13 and Rawhide.

I will try to disable quoteargs-tests anyway and see if that helps ...

Rich.

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