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Error while compiling Pidgin 2.0

I've run both

Code:

./configure --enable-gnutls=yes --enable-mono --enable-nm --enable-consoleui --enable-gevolution --enable-gstreamer --enable-plugins --disable-schemas-install --enable-screensaver

make

as well as simple configure

Code:

$./configure

and everytime, I get this error while running 'mske':

Code:

make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/shitz/downloads/pidgin-2.0.0/pidgin'

make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/shitz/downloads/pidgin-2.0.0/pidgin'

Making all in m4macros

make[2]: Entering directory `/root/shitz/downloads/pidgin-2.0.0/m4macros'

make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.

make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/shitz/downloads/pidgin-2.0.0/m4macros'

Making all in po

make[2]: Entering directory `/root/shitz/downloads/pidgin-2.0.0/po'

file=`echo af | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \

          && rm -f $file &&  -o $file af.po

/bin/sh: line 1: -o: command not found

make[2]: *** [af.gmo] Error 127

make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/shitz/downloads/pidgin-2.0.0/po'

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

make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/shitz/downloads/pidgin-2.0.0'

make: *** [all] Error 2

I'm running Ubuntu Feisty.

Any ideas on how to fix this? thanks

The problem is this

Quote:

file=`echo ar | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \
&& rm -f $file && -o $file ar.po
/bin/sh: line 1: -o: command not found

The command -o can't be found. The actual line from the Makefile is something like this

Code:

file=`echo $* | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \

          && rm -f $$file && $(GMSGFMT) -o $$file $

The variable $(GMSGFMT) is apparently not set on your system. The GMSGFMT variable should be set by the configure script. Gettext is required to set GMSGFMT. I've seen several people having problems with this on Debian and *buntu systems. In all of the solutions I've seen, installing the gettext package was common.

Code:

apt-get install gettext

Not exactly the site you'd go to to look for a file like this, but here's the .deb file. It worked fine for me on my PC and Laptop

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/sh...?content=57356

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