Non-member submission from [Geoff Raye <raye@meow.raye.com>] (fwd)

["Allin F. Cottrell" <root at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu>]

In <00111915382700.02216@nathan> it was written:
>the configure-script  of glic-2.2 logs this message:
>
>checking for gnumsgfmt... no
>checking for gmsgfmt... no
>checking for msgfmt... msgfmt
>checking version of msgfmt... v.  ?.??, bad
>
>In my SuSE-Linux there is a program msgfmt in /usr/openwin/bin/
>(I do not know why it is in this directory).
>
>I did not find gnumsgfmt and gmsgfmt.
>Where can I get the recent version?

meow~% ls -laF =msgfmt
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           35 Mar 27  2000
   /usr/local/bin/msgfmt -> ../encap/gettext-0.10.35/bin/msgfmt*

According to my encap-managed system (www.encap.org), msgfmt is part of
the GNU gettext package.  Grab it from your favorite mirror of
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.10.35.tar.gz

I'd guess that some system administrators might install /g(nu)?msgfmt/
on their systems to avoid ambiguity with a vendor gettext.  I suppose,
however, that that's a fairly unlikely prospect on platforms supported
by glibc 2.2.  :)

Anyhow, grab the latest gettext, drop it in, and I'd expect that things
will improve.

Geoff

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