Re: Compiling Git in Mac OS X Leopard

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Feb 7, 2008, 07:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20080207072359.GR24004@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <E9380AA8-2E38-4733-9940-FFD51BB84700@maisniemi.net>

Sami Maisniemi <sami@maisniemi.net> wrote:

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> I tried to compile Git in Mac OS X Leopard, because I was unable to  
> find any precompiled binaries. However, the compilation was aborted  
> due to the following error:
> 
> msgfmt --statistics --tcl po/de.po -l de -d po/
> make[1]: msgfmt: Command not found
> make[1]: *** [po/de.msg] Error 127
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> It seems that the makefile uses an application called msgfmt that is  
> not available in Mac OS X Leopard. What is application msgfmt and why  
> it is required? Is there any kind of workaround available?

Use:

	make NO_MSGFMT=1

to use the msgfmt work-somewhat-alike that ships with git, for this exact purpose. Newer versions than what you are trying to build should be automatically detecting if msgfmt isn't available and falling back to that work-somewhat-alike version. gitgui-0.9.2, which ships with git 1.5.4, does have that fallback.

-- 
Shawn.