msgmft segfaulting on ubuntu gutsy (clean)

From: Gabriel Saldaña <gsaldana@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 4, 2008, 07:02 UTC
Message-ID: <47CCF40C.2070203@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080228003212.GP8410@spearce.org>

I'm getting the msgmft error message when compiling git 1.5.4.3 on a clean install of Ubuntu Gutsy. Installed dependencies using "apt-get build-dep git-core".

Here's make output:

GITGUI_VERSION = 0.9.2.7.g3bae
     * new locations or Tcl/Tk interpreter
     GEN git-gui
     INDEX lib/
     MSGFMT    po/de.msg 371 translated.
     MSGFMT    po/fr.msg 371 translated.
     MSGFMT    po/hu.msg 371 translated.
     MSGFMT    po/it.msg 370 translated, 1 untranslated.
     MSGFMT    po/ja.msg 371 translated.
     MSGFMT    po/ru.msg 367 translated, 4 untranslated.
     MSGFMT    po/sv.msg 371 translated.
     MSGFMT po/zh_cn.msg 53 translated, 57 fuzzy, 253 untranslated.
     SUBDIR gitk-git
     GEN gitk-wish
Generating catalog po/de.msg
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 is very similar to Tiger's error message.

Gabriel Saldana