Re: [commit] Fix ENABLE_NLS; Was .... use ../intl/ when present

[Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 04:21:17PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
>>And finally, [msgfmt]: BFD barfed vis:
>>  make  all-recursive
>>  Making all in doc
>>  Making all in po
>>  file=/home/cygnus/cagney/BINUTILS/src/bfd/po/`echo fr | sed 
>>'s,.*/,,'`.gmo  && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH msgfmt -o $file 
>>/home/cygnus/cagney/BINUTILS/src/bfd/po/fr.po
>>  msgfmt: not found
>>  *** Error code 127
>>  Stop in /home/cagney/BINUTILS/native/bfd/po.
>>
>>As you can see GDB is building fine out of CVS.  BINUTILS on the other 
>>hand has trouble - it can only be built if msgfmt is installed (intl/ 
>>doesn't include this).  (Mark, suspecting something like this is why I 
>>asked that you use a snapshot - it should at least avoid that).
> 
> 
> I'm not sure why you feel that this makes GDB "superior" in any regard.
> The reason this works for GDB is that GDB doesn't need msgfmt yet. 
> Because it doesn't have any catalogs.

Eh?  The barf is in _BFD_.  GDB built because NLS was disabled, not 
because of a lack of catalogues.

 >  Needing msgfmt available at
 > build-from-CVS time seems to be pretty common for GNU packages; GCC
 > even politely documents the requirement to have gettext available
 > to modify GCC.

Mark, you might want to make a note of this point.

Andrew