Squeeze install problem on FreeBSD 7.0

[Stephan Arts]

On 10/31/07, Stephan Arts <stephan at xfce.org> wrote:
> 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.

if gettext was missing, then the configure script would notice.

BTW, this is an issue with all BSD's, I don't know why that happends.

>
> > > -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.
>