From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:17:45 GMT
Subject: Re: Problems building git with custom curl installation
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803070317010.19395@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <9b3e2dc20803061737l1832fb82g6532808b58a12ab5@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Stephen Sinclair wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Ian Hinder <hinder@gravity.psu.edu> wrote:
> [snip]
> >  1. Configure: Specifying the curl location leads to output that
> >  indicates that curl was not correctly located, even though a
> >  subsequent make finds it successfully and includes it in the build.
> 
> I'd just like to add that configure also doesn't detect and warn about
> a missing gettext package, which became evident to me today when I
> tried compiling it on a newly installed machine.  The configure is
> successful, but the build fails.

You probably forgot to include the relevant output.

But I guess I know it already: msgfmt ist not found.  Alas, there are 
patches underway to fix that already.

Hth,
Dscho