Clytie Siddall wrote:
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> Please don't assume everyone is looking for someone else to do their  
> work for them. Quite a few people are doing the most they can.

I apologize if you feel offended, this was not my intention. What I 
tried to explain jokingly is that making a lot of software that comes 
from different sources work together is a highly non-trivial task, and 
Fink tries its best to help with this. It has been, in fact, invented 
just for this. So it provides the tools, but it needs a sufficiently 
clean environment to work.

A basic package like gettext is particularly delicate to update, because 
it is used by very many programs, and if you make an error in the update 
procedure, you risk that a lot of your programs won't work any more.

Even just moving your gettext-0.15 from /usr/local/ to 
/usr/local/gettext/ as Ben suggested may break many things, including 
Fink packages that you built while gettext-0.15 was installed in 
/usr/local/.

Doing this right, and coping with the problems that arise from such an 
update, is as complicated as making a new version of a Fink package, 
where the latter has the advantage that you will know exactly what you 
have done.

Concerning the configure error

> checking for msgfmt... no

you can perhaps find more information in the config.log file that sits 
beside the configure script that gave this message (somewhere in 
/sw/src/fink.build/poxml-*-*/poxml-*). In config.log, look for a line 
that looks like that error message and then see what comes after it.

-- 
Martin



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