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Re: problems compiling RPM



On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, guy keren wrote:

> the 'po' directory contains translations to other languages, and is used
> by Gnu's gettext() library to support the 1st level of i18n (i.e. show the
> sting in a language specified by the user). but i guess you already knew
> that...
no, I didn't :-) I knew there was something called gnu's gettext, and I
knew there are sometimes 'po' directories, but have never linked the two.

> did you try STFEing for 'gnu gexttext no' ?
no, because I had no idea gettext was involved - searching for things
along the lines of 'po no rpm' achieved nothing tangible.

> no. 'po' files are simple text. they are not compiled by a C compiler.
> the are translated into binary catalogs using 'msgfmt' (as a google search
> of about 4 minutes just revealed). so 'MSGFMT' should be set to 'msgfmt'
> (at least on redhat 6.2 this binary exists in /usr/bin/). the '-o' flag
>
> so just replace this 'no' with 'msgfmt' and try compiling again.

So basicly - all I have to do is install gettext ?
ok, did that - now it compiles , thanks !

Oded




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