Re: 2.5: gettext issues during build (was: Error during bison1.35 building)

[Akim Demaille]

Hi Hans, Hi Victor
Le 26 mars 2012 à 09:59, Hans Aberg a écrit :

> Forwarded messages; replies please cc Victor.
> 
> Victor: do you have M4 installed?

Well, according to his message, he has.

> Hans
> 
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> From: Victor Wilden <address@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: Error during bison1.35 building
>> Date: 26 March 2012 08:52:57 GMT+02:00
>> To: address@hidden
>> 
>> Hello Hans,
>> 
>> I saw the bison error thread on list.gnu.org and I know it's quite old but I 
>> have the same error with bison 2.5 as Tatiana back then with bison 1.35 
>> (see: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bison/2011-10/msg00000.html ) 
>> even though I installed m4.
>> Maybe you could help me out here. I don't know how to solve this problem.
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> 
>> Victor
>> 
>> PS: I don't know how to 'cc' to the gnu mailing list so everybody can follow 
>> the troubleshooting. Maybe you can help me out there.
>> Oh, and here is the error:
>> 
>> rm -f de.gmo && : -c --statistics --verbose -o de.gmo de.po
>> mv: cannot access t-de.gmo
>> *** Error code 2
>> The following command caused the error:
>> lang=`echo de | sed -e 's,.*/,,'`; \
>> test "." = . && cdcmd="" || cdcmd="cd . && "; \
>> echo "${cdcmd}rm -f ${lang}.gmo && : -c --statistics --verbose -o 
>> ${lang}.gmo ${lang}.po"; \
>> cd . && rm -f ${lang}.gmo && : -c --statistics --verbose -o t-${lang}.gmo 
>> ${lang}.po && mv t-${lang}.gmo ${lang}.gmo

This looks like a failure in the gettext part of the
package.  That command looks weird: partly done to
support missing gettext (the ":" as command), and yet
the rule cannot work in this case.1

What is the context?  Is this a tarball?  Is this a
build from git?


>> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `de.gmo'
>> Current working directory /kkk/bison-2.5/runtime-po
>> *** Error code 1
>> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `stamp-po'
>> Current working directory /kkk/bison-2.5/runtime-po
>> *** Error code 1
>> The following command caused the error:
>> fail= failcom='exit 1'; \
>> for f in x $MAKEFLAGS; do \
>> case $f in \
>>   *=* | --[!k]*);; \
>>   *k*) failcom='fail=yes';; \
>> esac; \
>> done; \
>> dot_seen=no; \
>> target=`echo install-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \
>> list='build-aux po runtime-po lib data src doc examples tests etc'; for 
>> subdir in $list; do \
>> echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \
>> if test "$subdir" = "."; then \
>>   dot_seen=yes; \
>>   local_target="$target-am"; \
>> else \
>>   local_target="$target"; \
>> fi; \
>> (CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd $subdir && make  $local_target) \
>> || eval $failcom; \
>> done; \
>> if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \
>> make  "$target-am" || exit 1; \
>> fi; test -z "$fail"
>> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install-recursive'
>> Current working directory /kkk/bison-2.5
>> *** Error code 1
>> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install'
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