Re: [Denemo-devel] Building Denemo on Debian stable (ie Debian 9, Stretch)

[Andreas Schneider]

That's exactly the system I'm running. I don't recall exactly, but I
think I had to install both packages gettext and intltool to make it
work, if I remember correctly.

Andreas


On 12/11/2017 04:27 PM, Richard Shann wrote:
> I have upgraded to the Debian stable that came out in the Summer and
> have a problem at ./configure
> 
> Despite having the gettext package installed:
> 
> 
> address@hidden:~/git-denemo/denemo$ which xgettext
> /usr/bin/xgettext
> address@hidden:~/git-denemo/denemo$ which msgfmt
> /usr/bin/msgfmt
> 
> The ./configure step stops with a complaint that gettext tools aren't
> found. Here is the tail of the output:
> 
> checking for msgfmt... no
> checking for gmsgfmt... :
> checking for xgettext... no
> checking for msgmerge... no
> checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
> checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
> checking for shared library run path origin... done
> checking whether NLS is requested... yes
> checking for GNU gettext in libc... yes
> checking whether to use NLS... yes
> checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
> checking whether ln -s works... yes
> checking for intltool >= 0.35.0... 0.51.0 found
> checking for intltool-update... /usr/bin/intltool-update
> checking for intltool-merge... /usr/bin/intltool-merge
> checking for intltool-extract... /usr/bin/intltool-extract
> checking for xgettext... (cached) :
> checking for msgmerge... (cached) :
> checking for msgfmt... (cached) :
> checking for gmsgfmt... (cached) :
> configure: error: GNU gettext tools not found; required for intltool
> 
> Can anyone suggest what may be going wrong? (its Amd64 architecture)...
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
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