Re: configure, 2.3.8, and SuSE 9.1

[Anthony W. Youngman]

In message <address@hidden>, 
address@hidden writes
> Following through on my threat to try and "fix" the things I've been 
> moaning about :-)
>
> I've downloaded 2.3.8, and tried to install it. configure moaned about 
> a load of things, so I went into YaST and installed as much of the 
> missing dependencies as I could (yacc, flex, python etc etc). But what 
> I CAN'T find is "msgfmt".
>
> YaST can't find anything of that name (and it seems a strange name), 
> but without it configure won't complete successfully and I can't 
> proceed. What's wrong? And where do I find this thing?
I've managed to find it :-)

But it looks like it's a typical SuSE problem - it's mentioned with old 
SuSEs and old lilyponds.

It might be an idea to mention it in the INSTALL.TXT - something along 
the lines of "if installing on SuSE and YaST won't recognise the missing 
programs, use the 'pin' command to find what package it's in".

Cheers,
Wol
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