On 04/03/2012 08:18 AM, Zhihua Che wrote: > Hi, everyone > >     I'm building the newest libvirt from git repository, of version > 782afa98e4a5fa9a0927a9e32f9cf36082a2e8e7 > and failed complaining as the following. > > make[3]: Entering directory `/home/harvey/open-projects/libvirt-build/po' > cd ../../libvirt/po && : --update af.po libvirt.pot Why is the ':' there? Usually, this would be a call to one of the gettext tools (msgmerge, in particular). > cd ../../libvirt/po && rm -f af.gmo && : -c --statistics -o af.gmo af.po > mv: cannot stat `t-af.gmo': No such file or directory So maybe this is fallout from not having all of the gettext developer tools installed? -- Eric Blake   eblake(a)redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

On 04/03/2012 09:40 AM, Zhihua Che wrote: > 在 2012年4月3日 下午11:02，Eric Blake <eblake(a)redhat.com&gt; 写道： >> On 04/03/2012 08:18 AM, Zhihua Che wrote: >>> Hi, everyone >>> >>>     I'm building the newest libvirt from git repository, of version >>> 782afa98e4a5fa9a0927a9e32f9cf36082a2e8e7 >>> and failed complaining as the following. >>> >>> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/harvey/open-projects/libvirt-build/po' >>> cd ../../libvirt/po && : --update af.po libvirt.pot >> >> Why is the ':' there? Usually, this would be a call to one of the >> gettext tools (msgmerge, in particular). >> > I guess you're right, after I install gettext, building succeeds. > > I wonder if it's better that configure would fail when some packages > wasn't ready. I didn't know I missed some packages because configure > didn't output errors and any obvious warnings. 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? -- Eric Blake   eblake(a)redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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