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RE: cvs HEAD fails building bfd: msgfmt not found
- From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- To: Dave Korn <dk at artimi dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 17:50:18 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: cvs HEAD fails building bfd: msgfmt not found
- References: <NUTMEGXLjWdaw2Q4n5u00000181@NUTMEG.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
On Tue, 4 May 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
> Do you suppose it's possible that when I've done CVS builds before, some
> kind of generated files were already uptodate (having been recently
> regenerated in CVS) and so there was no need for msgfmt to run? (I don't
> know how gettext works or even what are its inputs and outputs, although I
> know it's something to do with .po and .gmo files).
>
> Otherwise I'm going to have to conclude that I must have had the cygwin
> development version of the gettext package (which *does* have msgfmt)
> installed and absent-mindedly downgraded/uninstalled it at some point.
> Right now, all I know for 100% sure is "But it never *used* to do that!"
Assuming the problem is "just" a missing msgfmt, it would be a
flaw in the configury that NLS isn't then automatically disabled
(unless --enable-nls is *specifically* requested).
Dare I suggest filing a bug report? (Don't forget to include
all configure options and cygwin package versions as
applicable.)
brgds, H-P