On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 04:27:04AM -0700, robert jorgenson wrote:
> okay it appears that if i want to have the tint transparency option available(and i do :> ) i am going top have to compile xchat from source. I untar/unzip the files cd to the directory, ./configure all is well no errors at all, i type make and get this ...
> 
> chimera:/home/bob/xchat-1.8.9# make
> make  all-recursive
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/bob/xchat-1.8.9'
> Making all in po
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/bob/xchat-1.8.9/po'
> file=./`echo ca | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
>   && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH  -o $file ca.po
> /bin/sh: -o: command not found
> make[2]: *** [ca.gmo] Error 127
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bob/xchat-1.8.9/po'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bob/xchat-1.8.9'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> chimera:/home/bob/xchat-1.8.9# 
> 
> First thing i did was check to see if /bin/sh was there, it wasn't so i apt-get that and try again same thing. As lame as it sounds this litle option is something i would really like, if someone could help me out with this i would appreciate it, thanks in advance :)

Looks to me like the Makefile isn't setting $(CC) properly. Check the
toplevel Makefile to see if it's redefining it to something bizarre. Since
it's an autoconf configure script, you'll likely have to edit the
po/Makefile and all other subdirectory's Makefiles as well.

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