From: Kim Scarborough <kim@scarborough.kim>
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2024 21:26:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Git and gettext
Message-ID: <1d6e0fef-9b9a-4239-aced-d20cd5c3434c@scarborough.kim>
In-Reply-To: <Zq5qNwmTpL1H5LH0@tapette.crustytoothpaste.net>

On 8/3/24 12:34 PM, brian m. carlson wrote:
> 
> Hmm, I can't remove msgfmt from my system, but if I put a `msgfmt`
> script in `$TMP/path` that contains just a shebang and `exit 1` and do
> this, the build succeeds:
> 
> ---
> PATH="$TMP/path:$PATH" make -j12 NO_GETTEXT=1 NO_MSGFMT=1
> ---
> 
> Note that `config.mak` is not read by git-gui, so you do really have
> to set `NO_MSGFMT=1` on the command line.
> 
> Can you show exactly the commands you're running and exactly the output
> you're getting?  Also, what OS and version are you running this on?

Not working for me. I ran "make NO_GETTEXT=1 NO_MSGFMT=1" and it dies 
thusly:

     BUILTIN git-version
     BUILTIN git-whatchanged
     SUBDIR git-gui
GITGUI_VERSION = 0.21.0.128.g2864e
     * new locations or Tcl/Tk interpreter
     MSGFMT    po/bg.msg     MSGFMT    po/de.msg     MSGFMT    po/el.msg 
     MSGFMT    po/fr.msg make[1]: *** [Makefile:239: po/bg.msg] Error 127
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: *** [Makefile:239: po/de.msg] Error 127
make[1]: *** [Makefile:239: po/el.msg] Error 127
     MSGFMT    po/hu.msg make[1]: *** [Makefile:239: po/fr.msg] Error 127
     MSGFMT    po/it.msg make[1]: *** [Makefile:239: po/hu.msg] Error 127
     MSGFMT    po/ja.msg make[1]: *** [Makefile:239: po/it.msg] Error 127
     MSGFMT    po/nb.msg make[1]: *** [Makefile:239: po/ja.msg] Error 127
make[1]: *** [Makefile:239: po/nb.msg] Error 127
make: *** [Makefile:2365: all] Error 2

This is a recently-built Linux from Scratch box.