Re: [libvirt-users] [Building Error] cannot stat `t-af.gmo': No such file or directory

On 04/03/2012 10:13 AM, Zhihua Che wrote: >> >> Running ./autogen.sh should already be requiring minimum tools; look at >> how bootstrap.conf has the $buildreq variable that includes gettext 0.17 >> as a prereq.  Maybe the problem is that you can have a system with >> gettext but not msgmerge?  What distro are you using, and what >> package(s) did you install to get things working?  How are the binaries >> divided between packages?  Do we need to add a line to $buildreq? >> > > I use ubuntu-11.10. > > I just issued "sudo apt-get install gettext" and things worked. > > What do you mean by "How are the binaries divided between packages?" ? > I'd say in my system packages installed by apt-get are all installed > in default directories, such as /usr/local On Fedora, 'autopoint' is part of gettext-devel-0.18.1.1-8.fc16.x86_64, but 'gettext' and 'msgmerge' are parts of gettext-0.18.1.1-8.fc16.x86_64.  Thus, checking for either the 'gettext' or the 'gettext-devel' package in isolation is wrong; a bootstrap of libvirt needs both packages on Fedora (then again, gettext-devel depends on gettext, so depending on the right one package pulls in both). What I'm trying to ask, then, is why your run of ./autogen.sh didn't pick up that 'gettext' was missing, and why installing the 'gettext' package also installed the 'msgmerge' binary needed later on in the build. -- Eric Blake   eblake(a)redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org