Okay after some searching i found out i didn't have it installed so installed the gettext package which had it in it. It is now in /usr/bin/msgfmt. i have these lines in the makefiles in po/ regarding msgfmt

GMSGFMT = PATH=../src:$$PATH
MSGFMT = no

i did ./configure again after i installed it. I really have no idea how i would change that to point to where it is or what most of that means. I would gather the MSGFMT = no part means it doesn't think i have it but im not sure.

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 16:52:26 -0700
mondoshawan@tank.dyndns.org wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 04:31:26PM -0700, robert jorgenson wrote:
> > its setting it to gcc, im assuming thats normal. I am completely new at
> > this but from reading it looks like the only error it has is the /bin/sh: -o
> > command not found. it looks to me like its trying to run "-o" as its own
> > command but i could be completely wrong. Any other ideas?
> 
> On my box it compiles thusly:
> 
> <SNIP>
>    make  all-recursive
>    make[1]: Entering directory /home/mondoshawan/xchat-1.8.9'
>    Making all in po
>    make[2]: Entering directory /home/mondoshawan/xchat-1.8.9/po'
>    rm -f cat-id-tbl.tmp
>    sed -f ../intl/po2tbl.sed ./xchat.pot \
>    | sed -e "s/@PACKAGE NAME@/xchat/" > cat-id-tbl.tmp
>    sed: Couldn't open file ../intl/po2tbl.sed
>    if cmp -s cat-id-tbl.tmp ./cat-id-tbl.c; then \
>       rm cat-id-tbl.tmp; \
>    else \
>       echo cat-id-tbl.c changed; \
>       rm -f ./cat-id-tbl.c; \
>       mv cat-id-tbl.tmp ./cat-id-tbl.c; \
>    fi
>    cat-id-tbl.c changed
>    cd . && rm -f stamp-cat-id && echo timestamp > stamp-cat-id
>    file=./echo ca | sed 's,.*/,,'.gmo \
>      && rm -f $file && PATH=../src:$PATH /usr/bin/msgfmt -o $file ca.po
> </SNIP>
> 
> I'm guessing that it might not be finding the msgfmt program. Do a search
> for it on your box. When you find it, you'll have to redefine the Makefile's
> MSGFMT variable to point to it. Fortunately, it looks like you'll only need
> it for the files in the po/ directory, so only the Makefile in there will
> need to be edited.
> 
> -- 
> Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
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