From: Luke Lu <git@vicaya.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:32:20 GMT
Subject: Re: Compiling Git in Mac OS X Leopard
Message-ID: <F1020256-19B0-4B86-A9D8-79E36A058A23@vicaya.com>
In-Reply-To: <E9380AA8-2E38-4733-9940-FFD51BB84700@maisniemi.net>

On Feb 6, 2008, at 11:09 PM, Sami Maisniemi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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?
>
> Regards Sami Maisniemi

Install macports if you haven't and then

sudo port selfupdate
sudo port install git-core

macports should manage all the dependencies needed by the packages  
including gettext which provides msgfmt,  After that you can git  
clone the lastest git.git if you want to mess with git and it should  
compile without any problem.

__Luke