Book 6.8 -6.42- Installing Gettext

mreff555 · 09-27-2011, 07:30 PM

I'm getting this error during the make check.

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/bin/sh ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99  -g -O2   -o msgcmp msgcmp-msgcmp.o msgcmp-msgl-fsearch.o libgettextsrc.la  -lm  

libtool: link: cannot find the library `/mnt/lfs/sources/gettext-0.18.1.1/gettext-tools/gnulib-lib/libgettextlib.la' or unhandled argument `/mnt/lfs/sources/gettext-0.18.1.1/gettext-tools/gnulib-lib/libgettextlib.la'

make[3]: *** [msgcmp] Error 1

make[3]: Leaving directory `/sources/gettext-0.18.1.1/gettext-tools/src'

make[2]: *** [check] Error 2

make[2]: Leaving directory `/sources/gettext-0.18.1.1/gettext-tools/src'

make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/gettext-0.18.1.1/gettext-tools

make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1

root:/sources/gettext-0.18.1.1# ^C

root:/sources/gettext-0.18.1.1#

Of course I already check to make sure the actual file is there. Any ideas?

druuna · 09-28-2011, 12:43 AM

Hi,

You say you are doing chapter 6.42, but I do see the following: /mnt/lfs/sources/gettext-0.18.1.1/gettext-tools/gnulib-lib/libgettextlib.la.

$LFS (/mnt/lfs) isn't used any more once you start chapter 6 (from 6.4 - Entering the Chroot Environment onward) .

I'm not sure how that got in there and why it shows up this far into chapter 6, but that is the problem you need to solve.

Hope this helps.

mreff555 · 09-28-2011, 06:25 AM

really? thats odd.

well then I guess I'll just skip it and move on.

druuna · 09-28-2011, 06:34 AM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by mreff555

well then I guess I'll just skip it and move on.

Skip it? Don't you want to fix the problem?

mreff555 · 09-29-2011, 06:38 AM

I guess I'm misunderstanding the previous post. I thought it wasn't used anymore.

druuna · 09-29-2011, 07:06 AM

Hi,

I was talking about $LFS. It ($LFS) is used up to chapter 6.4. In chapter 6.4 you enter the chrooted environment, which eliminates the /mnt/lfs part.

Although I don't know how, I'm guessing you provided it yourself somewhere down the line. You either set and used LFS or provided /mnt/lfs by hand.

Hope this helps.

mreff555 · 09-29-2011, 04:13 PM

Whoops, my bad I must have configured it in the wrong terminal.

regardless I started get again from scratch. I'm still getting one error

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SKIP: xgettext-glade-1

Skipping test: xgettext was built without Glade support

SKIP: xgettext-glade-2

Skipping test: xgettext was built without Glade support

SKIP: xgettext-glade-3

xgettext: Language "glade" is not supported. xgettext relies on expat.

          This version was built without expat.

FAIL: xgettext-glade-4

I installed expat and I still run in to the same problems. I just did the default config for expat. Do I need to specify where the libraries are?

mreff555 · 09-29-2011, 09:40 PM

Arrrrggggg.....

So the expat libraries are in /usr/local/lib

Code:

root:/sources/gettext-0.18# ls /usr/local/lib/
libexpat.a  libexpat.la  libexpat.so  libexpat.so.1  libexpat.so.1.5.2

I removed the build directory completely, re-extracted and used the following syntax for the config.

Code:

./configure --prefix=/usr --docdir=/usr/share/doc/gettext-0.18.1.1 --with-libexpat-prefix=/usr/local/lib

and I'm still getting the exact same error.

Code:

Skipping test: xgettext was built without Glade support
SKIP: xgettext-glade-1
Skipping test: xgettext was built without Glade support
SKIP: xgettext-glade-2
Skipping test: xgettext was built without Glade support
SKIP: xgettext-glade-3
xgettext: Language "glade" is not supported. xgettext relies on expat.
          This version was built without expat.
FAIL: xgettext-glade-4

Any suggestions?

Thanks

druuna · 09-30-2011, 01:00 AM

Hi,

Quote:

I installed expat and I still run in to the same problems. I just did the default config for expat.

Expat isn't build in LFS. It is part of BLFS, but you do not need it to build LFS. Why did you decide to build it and how did you build it?

I never encountered this error myself while building LFS 6.8 (yes, I do run the tests). Are you sure you didn't make any typo's/mistakes in any of the previous steps/chapters?

Although I'm not sure what else you added/changed: If the expat/glade test error is the only error you get I would continue.

BTW: If you need to add/change the options given in the book then something is wrong. Either the package you are currently building didn't go as planned or on of the previous packages didn't.
Adding/changing stuff might solve the problem at hand, but it might also get you into trouble later on during the build!

Hope this helps.