There is a conditional in the makefile(s): HAVE_MSGFMT = no

but po/Makefile is still trying to call msgfmt.  I think it is because po/Makefile is still added to AC_CONFIG_FILES, but this is where my investigation ends and I create a bug report. :)

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3415638&group_id=55736&atid=478070

Concerning gettext in OS X, I got a big warning when installing with homebrew that OS X ships with GNU gettext (or BSD, can't remember which), which is weird since homebrew is pretty modern.



On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@at.or.at> wrote:

Hmm, yes, it seems that Mac OS X does not include gettext, its the same on my 10.5 install.  You can use the old build system in src/configure.ac and get no translations or install gettext and use the new build system.  I suppose we need to add gettext detection to the new build system so it'll build without gettext.

.hc


On Sep 26, 2011, at 12:53 AM, Rich E wrote:

Hi all,

I compiled pd vanilla (Miller's git repo) in OS X 10.7 Lion yesterday and ran into (only) a couple hitches.

It seems gettext is missing and this causes the linking to fail because it can't find the msgfmt tool. I got it and compiled pd by doing:

sudo brew install --universal gettext
sudo ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/gettext/0.18.1.1/bin/msgfmt /usr/local/bin/msgfmt
./configure CFLAGS="-arch i386" LDFLAGS="-arch i386"
make

I don't know much about the gettext tool, but am I wrong in thinking that it should surely be there and blame apple for messing up on a very common unix package?

Cheers,
Rich
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