Re: gettext 0.14.5 compile issue

[Jason Keltz]

Hi Bruno,

Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
>
> > No.  Running make without the "-j" option will not allow me to compile
> > gettext 0.14.5.
> >
> > The problem, in particular seems to be that the line in
> > gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/src/Makefile
> >
> > msginit_DEPENDENCIES =  \
> >         ../intl/localename.lo \
> >         libgettextsrc.la
> >
> > ... but ../intl/localname.lo does not exist.
>
>
> Can you check two things:
>
>   - If you go into the gettext-tools/ directory and do "make" there,
>     what is "make"'s output? In particular I want to know whether it
>     recurses into intl/ before it recurses into src/.

Yes -- it does recurse into "intl" first:

make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/xsys.24287.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools'
Making all in doc
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/tmp/xsys.24287.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/doc'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/tmp/xsys.24287.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/doc'
Making all in intl
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/tmp/xsys.24287.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/intl'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/tmp/xsys.24287.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/intl'
Making all in lib
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/tmp/xsys.24287.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/lib'
make  all-am
make[3]: Entering directory 
`/tmp/xsys.24287.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/lib'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/tmp/xsys.24287.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/lib'
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/tmp/xsys.24287.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/lib'
Making all in libgrep
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/tmp/xsys.24287.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/libgrep'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/tmp/xsys.24287.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/libgrep'
Making all in libuniname
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/tmp/xsys.24287.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/libuniname'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/tmp/xsys.24287.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/libuniname'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory 
`/tmp/xsys.24287.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/src'
make  all-am
make[3]: Entering directory 
`/tmp/xsys.24287.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/src'
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `../intl/localename.lo', needed by 
`msginit'.  Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/tmp/xsys.24287.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/src'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/tmp/xsys.24287.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/xsys.24287.0/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools'

>   - If you go into the gettext-tools/intl/ directory and do "make" there,
>     what is "make"'s output? Does it build localename.lo?

Nope.  Make output is simply:

make: Nothing to be done for `all'.

.. yet the directory only contains:

ChangeLog.inst  Makefile  VERSION

> Other possibly useful information:
>   - "make --version"
>   - "sh --version"

GNU Make version 3.79.1
GNU bash, version 2.05a.0(1)-release

jas.