On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at stericsson.com> 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.
The gettext stuff is disabled by default. Unless you enable it at
configure time, the translations will not be built and installed.
However the mo files are usually distributed with sources, so the
person who builds the tarball should be able to build them. That is
the current behavior, we can change it if needed.
Andrej