Compiling Pan in Feisty

[trak87]

I'm trying to compile a newer version of Pan in my newly installed Feisty. I installed build-essential and the required libs and so ./configure runs successfully. But "make" is giving me a problem. Here are the results:

$ make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mine/apps/pan-0.128/pan-0.128'
Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mine/apps/pan-0.128/pan-0.128/po'
file=`echo am | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
&& rm -f $file && -o $file am.po
/bin/sh: -o: not found
make[2]: *** [am.gmo] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mine/apps/pan-0.128/pan-0.128/po'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mine/apps/pan-0.128/pan-0.128'
make: *** [all] Error 2


I don't understand what "-o" is testing for. I get the same compile problem with version .127 although it compiled fine in Edgy. What am I missing?

Pan website: http://pan.rebelbase.com/

[WW]

I don't have solution for you--only a few clues.

I took a look at the pan-0.128 source; in particular, Makefile.in.in in the po subdirectory. The error appears to be from this command:


.po.gmo:
file=`echo $* | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
&& rm -f $$file && $(GMSGFMT) -o $$file $<

For some reason, the macro GMSGFMT is not defined.

In the main directory, the file aclocal.m4 contains this line:


AC_PATH_PROG(GMSGFMT, gmsgfmt, $MSGFMT)

Unfortunately I don't know enough about the autotools suite to figure out what is going wrong.

[trak87]

Thanks. That gave me a clue to search on GMSGFMT and I found this thread:

http://forum.xfce.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3462;sa=showPosts

The guy says to install the gettext package. I did and it is now compiling.