Help to compile Xarchiver under FreeBSD

[Landry Breuil]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Giuseppe Torelli <colossus73 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Mmhmh, maybe.
>>
>> grep msgfmt config.log
>>
>> If it prints out MSGFMT='/usr/local/bin/msgfmt' then there is a serious
>> problem.  Otherwise rerun the configure script.
>> I don't know how to specify to the configure script where to look for
>> these specific commands... maybe --program-suffix|prefix=.
>
> It prints out NOTHING. I rerun the configure script and still nothing.
> Can you please pull out the sources and verify by yourself so to
> understand if it's a matter of configure script?
>
> $ svn co http://imagination.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/imagination

I have the same problem when compiling various svn components of Xfce, and
i'm now used to run "MSGFMT='/usr/local/bin/msgfmt' ./autogen.sh" to make
sure it picks it correctly.
Blame autotools.

Landry