[Buildroot] Build failure on msgfmt

[Buildroot] Build failure on msgfmt

[Joe]

After fixing the other issues I got responses from in my prior post I am getting 
the following failure (copied from console screen output) before the build 
stops:


/usr/bin/msgfmt -o test.mo ./de.po; \
        /bin/mkdir -p de/LC_MESSAGES; \
        cp -f test.mo de/LC_MESSAGES
./de.po:15: keyword "msgctxt" unknown
./de.po:15:8: parse error
/usr/bin/msgfmt: found 2 fatal errors
cp: cannot stat `test.mo': No such file or directory
make[5]: *** [test.mo] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/src/embedded/buildroot-2010.11/output/build/host-libglib2-2.26.0/gio/tests'

make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/src/embedded/buildroot-2010.11/output/build/host-libglib2-2.26.0/gio'
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/src/embedded/buildroot-2010.11/output/build/host-libglib2-2.26.0/gio'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/src/embedded/buildroot-2010.11/output/build/host-libglib2-2.26.0'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/src/embedded/buildroot-2010.11/output/build/host-libglib2-2.26.0'
make: *** [/usr/src/buildroot/output/build/host-libglib2-2.26.0/.stamp_built] 
Error 2


      

[Buildroot] Build failure on msgfmt

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Fri, 17 Dec 2010 12:52:19 -0800 (PST)
Joe <lordvictory1@yahoo.com> wrote:

> /usr/bin/msgfmt -o test.mo ./de.po; \
>         /bin/mkdir -p de/LC_MESSAGES; \
>         cp -f test.mo de/LC_MESSAGES
> ./de.po:15: keyword "msgctxt" unknown
> ./de.po:15:8: parse error
> /usr/bin/msgfmt: found 2 fatal errors
> cp: cannot stat `test.mo': No such file or directory
> make[5]: *** [test.mo] Error 1

This is because your gettext package from your distribution is too old,
and msgfmt doesn't understand some newer keywords of the libglib2 .po
files.

Peter, maybe we should build gettext for the host instead of relying on
the distribution msgfmt ? What do you think ? Or should be add a check
to verify that msgfmt is sufficiently recent ?

Regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com

[Buildroot] Build failure on msgfmt

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> writes:

Hi,

 Thomas> This is because your gettext package from your distribution is
 Thomas> too old, and msgfmt doesn't understand some newer keywords of
 Thomas> the libglib2 .po files.

 Thomas> Peter, maybe we should build gettext for the host instead of
 Thomas> relying on the distribution msgfmt ? What do you think ? Or
 Thomas> should be add a check to verify that msgfmt is sufficiently
 Thomas> recent ?

Like always, it's a question about pros/cons:

- How many packages need it?
- How uncommon is the dependency? Are there any version dependencies?
- How long does it take to build? Does it have a lot of dependencies?

If gettext comes out positive, then I don't have any issue adding it.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard