[SOLVED] Misprint in the LFS book 7.6 ?

michanux · 02-20-2015, 04:17 AM

Hello
Is there a mistake on
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/...5/gettext.html

"make -C src msgfmt" breaks with

Code:

ibtool: compile:  gcc -std=gnu99 -DLOCALEDIR=\"/tools/share/locale\" -DBISON_LOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/tools/share/locale\" -DUSEJAVA=0 -DUSEJEXE=0 -DGETTEXTJEXEDIR=\"/tools/lib/gettext\" -DGETTEXTJAR=\"/tools/share/gettext/gettext.jar\" -DLIBDIR=\"/tools/lib\" -DGETTEXTDATADIR=\"/tools/share/gettext\" -DPROJECTSDIR=\"/tools/share/gettext/projects\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I../libgrep -I../gnulib-lib -I../gnulib-lib -I../intl -I../../gettext-runtime/intl -g -O2 -c plural-exp.c -o libgettextsrc_la-plural-exp.o
plural-exp.c:20:29: fatal error: ../intl/pluralx.c: No such file or directory
 #include "../intl/pluralx.c"
                             ^
compilation terminated.
make: *** [libgettextsrc_la-plural-exp.lo] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/gettext-0.19.4/gettext-tools/src'

Google recommends to insert "make -C intl pluralx.c" after "make -C gnulib-lib".
Now the compilation runs very well.

Krejzi · 02-20-2015, 06:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by michanux

Hello
Is there a mistake on
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/...5/gettext.html

"make -C src msgfmt" breaks with

Code:

ibtool: compile:  gcc -std=gnu99 -DLOCALEDIR=\"/tools/share/locale\" -DBISON_LOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/tools/share/locale\" -DUSEJAVA=0 -DUSEJEXE=0 -DGETTEXTJEXEDIR=\"/tools/lib/gettext\" -DGETTEXTJAR=\"/tools/share/gettext/gettext.jar\" -DLIBDIR=\"/tools/lib\" -DGETTEXTDATADIR=\"/tools/share/gettext\" -DPROJECTSDIR=\"/tools/share/gettext/projects\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I../libgrep -I../gnulib-lib -I../gnulib-lib -I../intl -I../../gettext-runtime/intl -g -O2 -c plural-exp.c -o libgettextsrc_la-plural-exp.o
plural-exp.c:20:29: fatal error: ../intl/pluralx.c: No such file or directory
 #include "../intl/pluralx.c"
                             ^
compilation terminated.
make: *** [libgettextsrc_la-plural-exp.lo] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/gettext-0.19.4/gettext-tools/src'

Google recommends to insert "make -C intl pluralx.c" after "make -C gnulib-lib".
Now the compilation runs very well.

The book is fine. You are using newer version than in the 7.6 book, so it's your fault. The issue is fixed in svn and 7.7-rc1 where latest versions are used.

ReaperX7 · 02-20-2015, 06:51 AM

Check the 7.6 errata as well. Yes, gettext did add a new compile time dependency within itself. Not sure when Bruce and crew found it, but many people just used the earlier version of gettext.

Usually the SVN book will have new build instructions from time to time as packages are refined, so you kinda always have to read up first.

DrinkinHomeBrew · 02-25-2015, 02:53 PM

Just to add my 2c to this problem and maybe help future travelers ....

I recently performed a 7.6 build and did not encounter this error. Using the exact same host configuration for a subsequent build of 7.7-rc1 the same errors came up (and led me to here)

Code:

/mnt/lfs/build-logs/5.23-gettext-make-src-msgfmt.log:73:plural-exp.c:20:29: fatal error: ../intl/pluralx.c: No such file or directory
/mnt/lfs/build-logs/5.23-gettext-make-src-msgfmt.log:77:make: *** [libgettextsrc_la-plural-exp.lo] Error 1
/mnt/lfs/build-logs/5.23-gettext-make-src-msgmerge.log:12:plural-exp.c:20:29: fatal error: ../intl/pluralx.c: No such file or directory
/mnt/lfs/build-logs/5.23-gettext-make-src-msgmerge.log:16:make: *** [libgettextsrc_la-plural-exp.lo] Error 1
/mnt/lfs/build-logs/5.23-gettext-make-src-xgettext.log:32:plural-exp.c:20:29: fatal error: ../intl/pluralx.c: No such file or directory
/mnt/lfs/build-logs/5.23-gettext-make-src-xgettext.log:36:make: *** [libgettextsrc_la-plural-exp.lo] Error 1

The fix was to add the 'make -C intl pluralx.c' just after 'make -C intl pluralx.c' described above.

There was one difference on my host configuration (which was a VM template), and that was I had to run install 'texinfo' to get binutils to compile. However the LFS book does not have texinfo as a required host package. I've noted both of these to the dev team.

Krejzi · 02-25-2015, 02:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrinkinHomeBrew

Just to add my 2c to this problem and maybe help future travelers ....

I recently performed a 7.6 build and did not encounter this error. Using the exact same host configuation for a subsequent build of 7.7-rc1 the same errors came up (and led me to here)

The fix was to add the 'make -C intl pluralx.c' just after 'make -C intl pluralx.c' described above.

LFS-7.7-rc1 has the following in gettext chapter 5:

make -C gnulib-lib
make -C intl pluralx.c

DrinkinHomeBrew · 02-25-2015, 03:10 PM

Damn, you're right.

Well I feel like an idiot now.