cvs HEAD fails building bfd: msgfmt not found

[Dan Kegel]

Dave Korn wrote:
> Uptodate as of a few minutes ago, I got this error.  Haven't seen it before,
> but there's lots of hits at
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=msgfmt+not+found
> which suggest that it's something to do with autoconf problem  in
> configuring nls support.  I'm about to try reconfiguring with --disable-nls
> and see if that solves the problem, but this level of autoconf internals is
> way over my head.
> ...
> msgfmt: not found

Um, did you try installing gnu gettext, which provides msgfmt?
- Dan

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