Squeeze install problem on FreeBSD 7.0

[Landry Breuil]

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

Because configure and autotools is a pure nightmare ? :)
Instead of trying to make it compile 'the hard way', i'd suggest the
OP to try to make a port of it for FreeBSD, and send his work to ports
lists. Other people (e.g lambda users) may benefit from his work, and
it's not that hard to write a port (at least for OpenBSD, but i
suppose for FreeBSD it's the same).

landry