sharutils-4.2.1 - fails to build, both on Linux and Solaris

[Gary Barnes]

Apparently a problem in the .po files.  Even after upgrading to msgfmt
version 0.11.5 I get this same series of errors on both Linux(Mandrake) and
Solaris(2.6).

On Linux I just say "./configure", on Solaris I gave a --prefix=.
I got the 4.2.1 .tar.gz file from gatekeeper.dec.com in /pub/GNU/sharutils.

    Gary

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amber 264: make distclean
    ...snip...
amber 265: ./configure --prefix=/accts/amber.a/usr/local/sun4_solaris2
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for a BSD compatible install... 
/accts/amber.a/usr/local/sun4_solaris2/bin/install -c
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for gnudiff... no
checking for diffgnu... no
checking for diff... /accts/amber.a/usr/local/sun4_solaris2/bin/diff
checking for Mail... /usr/ucb/Mail
checking for perl... /accts/amber.a/usr/local/sun4_solaris2/bin/perl
checking for bash... no
checking for sh... /usr/bin/sh
checking for gnutar... no
checking for targnu... no
checking for gtar... 
/ned/tools/installed.ss/build.cupertino/sun4_solaris2/bin/gtar
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for AIX... no
checking for POSIXized ISC... no
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking whether cross-compiling... no
checking whether char is unsigned... no
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... 
checking for function prototypes... yes
checking for working const... yes
checking for inline... inline
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... yes
checking for limits.h... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for sys/wait.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes
checking for -ldir... no
checking whether stat file-mode macros are broken... no
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h
checking for tm_zone in struct tm... no
checking for tzname... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking for basename... yes
checking for fchmod... yes
checking for getcwd... yes
checking for isascii... yes
checking for memcpy... yes
checking for strchr... yes
checking for strerror... yes
checking for uname... yes
checking for working alloca.h... yes
checking for alloca... yes
checking whether closedir returns void... no
checking for -lintl... yes
checking for strftime... yes
checking for vprintf... yes
checking for memset... yes
checking for mktime... yes
checking for stpcpy... no
checking for strftime... (cached) yes
checking for /etc/systemid... no
checking if uuencode and uudecode are wanted... yes
checking for off_t... yes
checking for valloc... yes
checking for getpagesize... yes
checking for working mmap... no
checking for limits.h... (cached) yes
checking for locale.h... (cached) yes
checking for nl_types.h... yes
checking for malloc.h... yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for values.h... yes
checking for getcwd... (cached) yes
checking for munmap... yes
checking for putenv... yes
checking for setenv... no
checking for setlocale... yes
checking for strchr... (cached) yes
checking for strcasecmp... yes
checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for explicitly using GNU gettext... no
checking for -lintl... (cached) yes
checking for -li... no
checking for gettext... yes
checking for msgfmt... /accts/amber.a/usr/local/sun4_solaris2/bin/msgfmt
checking for dcgettext... yes
checking for gmsgfmt... /accts/amber.a/usr/local/sun4_solaris2/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /accts/amber.a/usr/local/sun4_solaris2/bin/xgettext
checking for catalogs to be installed...  de fr ja_JP.EUC nl pt sv
checking if malloc debugging is wanted... no
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating src/mail-files
creating src/mailshar
creating src/remsync
creating contrib/Makefile
creating lib/Makefile
creating intl/Makefile
creating intl/po2tbl.sed
creating src/Makefile
creating po/Makefile.in
creating doc/Makefile
creating checks/Makefile
creating config.h
amber 266: make
for subdir in doc lib po  src checks contrib; do \
  target=`echo all-recursive|sed 's/-recursive//'`; \
  echo making $target in $subdir; \
  (cd $subdir && make $target) \
    || case "" in *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac; \
done && test -z "$fail"
making all in doc
make[1]: Entering directory `/accts/amber.e/gnusrc/sharutils-4.2.1/doc'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/accts/amber.e/gnusrc/sharutils-4.2.1/doc'
making all in lib
make[1]: Entering directory `/accts/amber.e/gnusrc/sharutils-4.2.1/lib'
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../intl -I../intl  -g -O  error.c
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../intl -I../intl  -g -O  getopt.c
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../intl -I../intl  -g -O  getopt1.c
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../intl -I../intl  -g -O  md5.c
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../intl -I../intl  -g -O  xgetcwd.c
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../intl -I../intl  -g -O  xmalloc.c
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../intl -I../intl  -g -O  xstrdup.c
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../intl -I../intl  -g -O  whoami.c
gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../intl -I../intl  -g -O  stpcpy.c
rm -f libshar.a
ar cru libshar.a  error.o getopt.o getopt1.o md5.o xgetcwd.o xmalloc.o 
xstrdup.o whoami.o  stpcpy.o
ranlib libshar.a
make[1]: Leaving directory `/accts/amber.e/gnusrc/sharutils-4.2.1/lib'
making all in po
make[1]: Entering directory `/accts/amber.e/gnusrc/sharutils-4.2.1/po'
/accts/amber.a/usr/local/sun4_solaris2/bin/msgfmt -o de.mo de.po
/accts/amber.a/usr/local/sun4_solaris2/bin/msgfmt: de.po: warning: Charset 
missing in header.
                                                                   Message 
conversion to user's charset will not work.
/accts/amber.a/usr/local/sun4_solaris2/bin/msgfmt -o fr.mo fr.po
/accts/amber.a/usr/local/sun4_solaris2/bin/msgfmt: fr.po: warning: Charset 
missing in header.
                                                                   Message 
conversion to user's charset will not work.
/accts/amber.a/usr/local/sun4_solaris2/bin/msgfmt -o ja_JP.EUC.mo ja_JP.EUC.po
/accts/amber.a/usr/local/sun4_solaris2/bin/msgfmt: ja_JP.EUC.po: warning: 
Charset missing in header.
                                                                          
Message conversion to user's charset will not work.
/accts/amber.a/usr/local/sun4_solaris2/bin/msgfmt -o nl.mo nl.po
/accts/amber.a/usr/local/sun4_solaris2/bin/msgfmt: nl.po: warning: Charset 
missing in header.
                                                                   Message 
conversion to user's charset will not work.
nl.po:450: `msgid' and `msgstr' entries do not both end with '\n'
/accts/amber.a/usr/local/sun4_solaris2/bin/msgfmt: found 1 fatal error
make[1]: *** [nl.mo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/accts/amber.e/gnusrc/sharutils-4.2.1/po'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
amber 267: 
amber 267: /accts/amber.a/usr/local/sun4_solaris2/bin/msgfmt --version
msgfmt (GNU gettext) 0.11.5
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