cvs HEAD fails building bfd: msgfmt not found

["Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>]

Uptodate as of a few minutes ago, I got this error.  Haven't seen it before,
but there's lots of hits at
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=msgfmt+not+found
which suggest that it's something to do with autoconf problem  in
configuring nls support.  I'm about to try reconfiguring with --disable-nls
and see if that solves the problem, but this level of autoconf internals is
way over my head.



make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/build/obj/bfd/doc'
Making all in po
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/build/obj/bfd/po'
( if test 'x../../../src/bfd/po' != 'x.'; then \
    posrcprefix='../../../src/bfd/'; \
  else \
    posrcprefix="../"; \
  fi; \
  rm -f SRC-POTFILES-t SRC-POTFILES \
    && (sed -e '/^#/d' \
            -e '/^[     ]*$/d' \
            -e "s@.*@   $posrcprefix& \\\\@" <
../../../src/bfd/po/SRC-POTFILES.
in \
        | sed -e '$s/\\$//') > SRC-POTFILES-t \
    && chmod a-w SRC-POTFILES-t \
    && mv SRC-POTFILES-t SRC-POTFILES )
( rm -f BLD-POTFILES-t BLD-POTFILES \
    && (sed -e '/^#/d' \
            -e '/^[     ]*$/d' \
            -e "s@.*@   ../& \\\\@" < ../../../src/bfd/po/BLD-POTFILES.in \
        | sed -e '$s/\\$//') > BLD-POTFILES-t \
    && chmod a-w BLD-POTFILES-t \
    && mv BLD-POTFILES-t BLD-POTFILES )
cd .. \
  && CONFIG_FILES=po/Makefile.in:po/Make-in \
     CONFIG_HEADERS= /bin/sh ./config.status
creating po/Makefile.in
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/build/obj/bfd/po'
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/build/obj/bfd/po'
file=../../../src/bfd/po/`echo fr | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
  && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH msgfmt -o $file
../../../src/bfd/po/fr.po
msgfmt: not found
make[3]: *** [fr.gmo] Error 127
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/build/obj/bfd/po'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/build/obj/bfd'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/build/obj/bfd'
make: *** [all-bfd] Error 2
dk@mace /usr/build/obj>



    cheers, 
      DaveK
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