Re: BFD behaves poorly if msgfmt is missing

[Alan Modra]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 08:22:03PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> I tried building BFD on i686-pc-linux-gnu, and got a cryptic error in
> the /po subdirectory.  I tried it with --disable-nls, and got a slightly
> different cryptic error in the /po subdirectory.
> 
> Finally I managed to trace the problem down to the absence of 'msgfmt' 
> and 'xgettext' on my machine.  Once I installed them, everything was fine.
> 
> But a better error message would be greatly appreciated. :-P

Ah, the infamous "no: command not found"?  It's really a problem with
the version of autoconf we use, and should disappear when binutils
finally moves to something more recent.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre