Re: gettext 0.18 grumbles

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 02:29:44PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/03/2010 12:59 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >> I just updated gnulib in libguestfs.  This pulls in gettext 0.18 -- I
> >> don't directly depend on the gettext module in gnulib, but doubtless
> >> it's being pulled in as a dependency of something.
> >>
> >> There's no gettext 0.18 in Fedora, even in Rawhide, and it seems
> >> non-trivial to build.
> > 
> > It built fine for me on Rawhide a few weeks ago.
> > What went wrong for you?
> 
> It built fine for me, but only after I installed the rcs package (which
> is not present by default).  Perhaps this is the issue that Richard was
> encountering with the proper archive.tar.gz files not being created?

This didn't help ...  archive.tar.gz is still missing.  I don't know
what that file is used for and whether it's important.

Rich.

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