Apparently the usage of xgettext was introduced only recently?
The error below happens when dowloading fresh from CVS, but
using the old (updated) package actually it seems to work.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 04:35:55PM -0400, Raymond Toy wrote:
> Oliver Kullmann wrote:
> > So it seems I should run, after "sh boostrap", "./configure", and then "make dist"?
> > This yields an error:
> >
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/csoliver/SAT-Algorithmen/OKplatform/ExternalSources/sources/Maxima/Test/maxima/plotting'
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/csoliver/SAT-Algorithmen/OKplatform/ExternalSources/sources/Maxima/Test/maxima/locale'
> > touch maxima.pot
> > find ../src -name "*.lisp" | xargs xgettext -s -c -j -o maxima.pot
> > xargs: xgettext: No such file or directory
> > make[1]: *** [maxima.pot] Error 127
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/csoliver/SAT-Algorithmen/OKplatform/ExternalSources/sources/Maxima/Test/maxima/locale'
> > make: *** [distdir] Error 1
> >
> >
> You need to have xgettext somewhere on your system.
>
> But perhaps we should add a test in configure to see if xgettext exists
> or not and if it doesn't, don't bother to run these things.
>
> We should probably also check to see if xgettext is usable or not (the
> Solaris version is not usable for maxima), but I don't really know how
> to test that.
>
> Ray