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Re: NO_MSGFMT

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Aug 13, 2017, 04:58 UTC
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<20170813045813.i42mgwn3dmm6u52o@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 03:44:17PM +0200, Dominik Mahrer (Teddy) wrote:
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> Hi all
> 
> I'm compiling git from source code on a mashine without msgfmt. This leads
> to compile errors. To be able to compile git I created a patch that at least
> works for me:
Try:
  make NO_MSGFMT=Nope NO_GETTEXT=Nope
This also works:
  make NO_GETTEXT=Nope NO_TCLTK=Nope

The flags to avoid gettext/msgfmt are sadly different between git itself and git-gui/gitk, which we include as a subproject. It would be a useful patch to harmonize though (probably by accepting both in all places for compatibility).

-Peff
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