---------------------------------------- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 21:53:59 -0700 > Subject: [aur-general] gettext and intl directory > > Hello, > > I am the maintainer for the git version of Midnight Commander[1]. Since > the release of gettext 0.18.3, building midnight commander fails with > the following error: > > configure.ac:497: error: required file 'intl/Makefile.in' not found > Makefile.am:4: error: required directory ./intl does not exist > lib/Makefile.am: installing 'config/depcomp' > parallel-tests: installing 'config/test-driver' > automake failed to generate Makefile.in > > > It seems that gettext is not creating the intl directory, which is > required by mc. If I downgrade to gettext 0.18.2.1 and try to build, > then it seems that the intl directory is properly created and the build > succeeds. My question is: since this change of behavior happens with the > latest version, is this a bug with gettext or with midnight commander? > > I am not very familiar with gettext and I haven't been able to find any > relevant documentation on the internets so any insight would be very > useful. > > Thank you, > Chirantan > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mc-git/
Looks like a bug in gettext, already fixed upstream: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gettext.git/commit/?id=c0d3ce9120fc24d2b78af59c5760ce1ec0dc0ad4
