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Date:      Tue, 25 Sep 2001 18:07:03 +0300
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Antonio Bemfica <antonio@axolotl.ic.gc.ca>
Cc:        Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, Qing Li <qingli@speakeasy.org>
Subject:   Re: building gnome on 4.4
Message-ID:  <3BB09D97.D7FABEE0@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1010925102007.62719B-100000@axolotl.ic.gc.ca>

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Antonio Bemfica wrote:

> I have noticed that very often a gnome port will fail due to some syntax
> error in a *.po file. I usually end up going down the source tree and
> editing the corresponding Makefile by hand to eliminate the broken .po
> file from the build.
>
> Wouldn't it be possible to have an environment variable take care of
> ignoring the error (similar behaviour to NO_CHECKSUM, for example), or
> avoid building the additional languages?

This problem have been resolved recently. Remove gettext-0.10.38 package from
your system and reinstall it from freshly cvsup'ed ports
(ports/devel/gettext-devel).

-Maxim

>
>
> Antonio
>
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Joe Clarke wrote:
>
> > Yeah, this was noted on and off before 4.4 was released.  A new portrev of
> > gettext-devel was released today that supposedly fixes this.  I've
> > installed it, and have not noticed a problem.  Update to
> > gettext-0.10.38_1, and rebuild bonobo.  The error should go away.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Qing Li wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >    I was trying to build /usr/ports/x11/gnomecore and kept
> > >    getting stuck in /usr/ports/devel/bonobo/work/bonobo-1.0.8/po.
> > >
> > >    The last command and the error message is:
> > >
> > >    /usr/local/bin/msgfmt-new -o gl.mo gl.po
> > >    gl.po:720: syntax error
> > >
> > >    Has anybody seen this? How could I fix it?
> > >
> > >    thanks
> > >
> > >
> > >    P.S. I performed cvsup today. I was able to rebuilt the system and
> > >         kernel without any problem. I'm running 4.4-STABLE and KDE 2.2.2
> > >         was built and installed okay.
>
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