Thanks, I fill silly for not even looking at the file myself. It was
obvious once I looked at it.
Clint Brubakken
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, James E. Jarvis wrote:
> Clint
>
> CAUTION - I am no expert - backup you computer and take out life insurance
> before listening to me! Seriously, I am not an expert on this - I just had
> the same problem..
>
>
> Somewhere in the lyx source tree there is a typo error in a few of the
> lines of the file it mentions - pt.po - at the lines it mentions...
>
> so find the file
>
> cd /usr/local/src/lyx-1.0.1 (or where ever your source is)
>
> find ./ -name pt.po -print
>
> look at the path and cd to the correct directory
>
> make a backup copy of the file you are about to edit...
> cp pt.po pt.po.original
>
> then use an editor that allows you to go to particular line numbers, I
> use emacs like this
>
> emacs +923 pt.po
>
> The error is obvious when you look at the lines above it which are
> correctly typed. Look at the respective error message for that line and
> correct it
>
> Repeat for each error then cd back and type 'make' again and if it is
> happy it will carry on. I have actually posted to the development list
> about this oddity but as I am no expert I don't know much about why or how
> this is all a problem.
>
> Good Luck
>
> James
>
> On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Clint A. Brubakken wrote:
>
> > I am compiling lyx for Solaris x86 using egcs compilers,
> > and I get the following error.
> > /usr/5bin/msgfmt -o pt.mo pt.po
> > Warning, Syntax at line number: 923, Missing ", ignored
> > Warning, Syntax at line number: 923, Missing " at EOL, ignored
> > Error, No space after directive at line number 3984.
> > Exiting...
> > make[1]: *** [pt.mo] Error 2
> >
> > I assume its an error with my msgfmt, as I am compliling lyx-1.0.1
> >
> > How can I get around this, Is there another version of msgfmt I can
> > install?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Clint Brubakken
> >
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> > Clint Brubakken
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> > Wichita, KS
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> > User Friendly, 5/16/1998
> >
> >
>
> James Jarvis
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Clint Brubakken
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