Re: [Freetalk-dev] Installing Freetalk

[Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray]

> I think you also need guile-devel.

Thanks. I yum installed guile-devel. But now I have another issue.
./configure says it can not find input file po/Makefile.in.in.

address@hidden freetalk-0.69]$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking for g++... g++
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for library containing tgetent... -lncurses
checking for readline in -lreadline... yes
checking for scm_boot_guile in -lguile... yes
checking for g_slist_free in -lglib-2.0... yes
checking for lm_connection_new in -lloudmouth-1... yes
checking for pkg-config... yes
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-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... /bin/sh:
./config.rpath: No such file or directory
done
checking for CFPreferencesCopyAppValue... no
checking for CFLocaleCopyCurrent... no
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 for msgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... (cached) /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for msgmerge... (cached) /usr/bin/msgmerge
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating extensions/Makefile
config.status: creating extensions/init.scm
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: error: cannot find input file: po/Makefile.in.in
address@hidden freetalk-0.69]$

A directory lising of the po/ sub-directory shows a lot of symlinks
with their targets missing, and Makefile.in.in being one of them.

address@hidden freetalk-0.69]$ ls -l po/
total 16
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rishi root   34 আগস্ট  6 09:52 boldquot.sed ->
/usr/share/gettext/po/boldquot.sed
drwxr-xr-x 2 rishi root 4096 এপ্রিল 19 06:01 CVS
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rishi root   40 আগস্ট  6 09:52 address@hidden ->
/usr/share/gettext/po/address@hidden
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rishi root   36 আগস্ট  6 09:52 address@hidden ->
/usr/share/gettext/po/address@hidden
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rishi root   39 আগস্ট  6 09:52 insert-header.sin ->
/usr/share/gettext/po/insert-header.sin
-rw-r--r-- 1 rishi root   19 এপ্রিল 19 06:01 LINGUAS
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rishi root   36 আগস্ট  6 09:52 Makefile.in.in ->
/usr/share/gettext/po/Makefile.in.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 rishi root  378 এপ্রিল 19 06:01 Makevars
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rishi root   39 আগস্ট  6 09:52 Makevars.template ->
/usr/share/gettext/po/Makevars.template
-rw-r--r-- 1 rishi root  431 এপ্রিল 19 06:01 POTFILES.in
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rishi root   30 আগস্ট  6 09:52 quot.sed ->
/usr/share/gettext/po/quot.sed
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rishi root   41 আগস্ট  6 09:52 remove-potcdate.sin ->
/usr/share/gettext/po/remove-potcdate.sin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rishi root   32 আগস্ট  6 09:52 Rules-quot ->
/usr/share/gettext/po/Rules-quot
address@hidden freetalk-0.69]$

Am I doing something really stupid?

Cheers,
Debarshi

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That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"

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