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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: troubles with 'msgfmt'
From:       Hans-Detlev Fink <hdf () pecos ! de>
Date:       1997-12-31 2:00:28
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You are probably using the wrong msgfmt version. Many linuxes
come with a version that is installed in /usr/openwin/bin. This is
the wrong version. Try and get and install the one from the
gettext-0.10 (or later) package.

-Hans-

Mathias Weigt (Stud. 94) wrote:

> Servus !
>
> I had the same problem but i considered msgfmt not too relevant and gave it
> an empty executable shell-script (named msgfmt) -- it worked !
>
> Mathias Weigt
> p5iba@medchem2.pharmazie.uni-halle.de
>
> On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Ian Tester wrote:
>
> > hi,
> >       Whenever I try to compile the KDE stuff, I always get errors from
> > the 'msgfmt' program in the po directories. It always does something like
> >
> > file=./`echo pl | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
> > && rm -f $file && msgfmt -o $file pl.po
> > usage: msgfmt [ -dv ] [ - ] [ name ... ]
> > ./pl.gmo: No such file or directory
> >
> > Am I using an old version or something? My msgfmt seems to come with
> > openwindows -
> >
> > ~# locate msgfmt
> > /usr/openwin/bin/msgfmt
> > /usr/openwin/man/man1/msgfmt.1
> >
> > I just use 'make -k' to force make to continue.
> >

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