Comment 8 for bug 267978

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Monty Taylor (mordred) wrote : Re: [Bug 267978] Re: gettext dependency not properly picked up in build process

Vid Luther wrote:
> msgfmt --version
> msgfmt (GNU gettext-tools) 0.17
> Copyright (C) 1995-1998, 2000-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> Written by Ulrich Drepper.
>
> What's weird, is that when I typed it originally, ubuntu said I may want
> to install gettext, so i did what it told me to, and now msfgmt works..
> I have a feeling the compile will work too now. Now I need to figure out
> why the compile worked for so long and all of a sudden today it stopped
> working.. this box is barely used..

That is sort of odd. I would have expected configure to do the right
thing... I'll try to look tomorrow at the configure script and see what
the deal is.