Squeeze install problem on FreeBSD 7.0

Stephan Arts stephan at xfce.org
Wed Oct 31 08:18:24 CET 2007


On 10/31/07, mmassonnet at gmail.com <mmassonnet at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:57:32AM +0800, Erdenebat Gantomor wrote:
> > Hi dear all how do i install Squeeze on FreeBSD 7.0. I've tried to install
> > using gmake. Someone tell me what should i do and what am i doing wrong.
> > When using make then following error is displaying
> >
> > Making all in po
> > Error expanding embedded variable.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/home/user/Desktop/squeeze-0.2.1.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/home/user/Desktop/squeeze-0.2.1.
> > Also when i try to install using gmake then following error is displaing
> >
> > Making all in po
> > gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/home/user/Desktop/squeeze-0.2.1/po'
> > file=`echo ar | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
> >           && rm -f $file &&  -o $file ar.po
>                              ^^^^
>
> You are missing "gettext" that provides msgfmt.

wrong, run:

GMSGFMT=/usr(/local)/bin/msgfmt ./configure

for some reason the configure script does not detect msgfmt automatically.

> > -o: not found
> > gmake[2]: *** [ar.gmo] Error 127
> > gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/user/Desktop/squeeze-0.2.1/po'
> > gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/user/Desktop/squeeze-0.2.1'
> > gmake: *** [all] Error 2

Regards,

Stephan.



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