Re: configure gaps

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: configure gaps
Date: 2010-10-02 21:10:33
Message-ID: 11088.1286053833@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> make -C backend all
>> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/pg_9_0/src/backend'
>> msgfmt -o po/de.mo po/de.po
>> You don't have 'xgettext'.
>> make[2]: *** [po/de.mo] Error 1

> It seems to me that this indicates brain death on the part of the SLES
> packager. Surely if msgfmt requires xgettext to work in his build, they
> should be in the same subpackage, or else the one containing msgfmt
> ought to require the one containing xgettext.

Wait a minute ... I was supposing that msgfmt was trying to invoke
xgettext, but now I notice that that exact message wording is in our
nls-global.mk. Is it possible that your build is trying to rebuild the
.pot files for some reason (maybe a timestamp skew issue)?

regards, tom lane

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