Re: [Bug-tar] `make install' failure with latest CVS sources

[Eric Blake]

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[Cross-posting to bug-gnu-utils, since it involves gettext]

According to Jim Meyering on 4/22/2006 5:21 PM:
> Hi Sergey,
> 
> When running `make install' with the latest CVS sources, I get lots of
> errors like this:
> 
>   mkdir -p -- /locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES
>   mkdir: cannot create directory `/locale': Permission denied
>   /p/bin/install: cannot create regular file 
> `/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/tar.mo': No such file or directory
> 
> I had something similar happen to coreutils a few months ago, and
> tracked it down to the lack of a definition of $(datarootdir)
> in po/Makefile.in.in.  Normally, I'd make this change

po/Makefile.in.in comes from gettext.  The gettext 0.14 series does not
define $(datarootdir), and the 0.15 series has not been released yet.  So,
any project using autoconf 2.59c or greater but only a stable version of
gettext will receive a warning that Makefile.in.in references datadir
without defining datarootdir.  I don't know how best to fix this, short of
asking for a new gettext release that corrects this issue.

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