cvs HEAD fails building bfd: msgfmt not found
Dan Kegel
dank@kegel.com
Wed May 5 02:54:00 GMT 2004
Dave Korn wrote:
>... I dunno why it never crashed before. I don't have an
> old build lying around, otherwise I'd see what it did at that point. I've
> looked at the CVS and can't see any obviously relevant changes in the
> src/bfd/po directory, but then again who knows what could change elsewhere
> in the autotool infrastructure and have a knock-on effect.
>
> Do you suppose it's possible that when I've done CVS builds before, some
> kind of generated files were already uptodate (having been recently
> regenerated in CVS) and so there was no need for msgfmt to run?
Yup. I've run into that kind of thing myself in other packages.
Fairly often, you need a particular version of autotools installed
to handle the triggered rebuild properly -- and the right version
differs from package to package! No need to worry too much that
unless it hits you, though.
- Dan
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