make check on OS X

[David Reiser]

On Apr 17, 2009, at 12:00 AM, David Reiser wrote:

>
> On Apr 15, 2009, at 10:11 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>> David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net> writes:
>>
>>> I've never been able to get make check to work for me. There's some
>>> glitch in getting it to find msgfmt(?) properly during make check
>>> which has never been a problem building and running without the  
>>> check.
>>
>> We should try to figure this out..  "make check" should work on all
>> platforms.  (I say "should", but might not be able to).
>>
>> -derek
>>
> Hmm. make check works as long as I disable test-lots, it's make  
> distcheck that gives:
>
> checking for a valid gettext/gmsgfmt installation... no
> configure: error: Cannot find Glib Gettext.  Maybe you need to  
> install the gettext package?
> make: *** [distcheck] Error 1
>
> however:
> $msgfmt --version
> msgfmt (GNU gettext-tools) 0.14.5
> Copyright (C) 1995-1998, 2000-2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There  
> is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR  
> PURPOSE.
> Written by Ulrich Drepper.
>
Some additional information:
config.log from a make distcheck reports
ac_cv_path_GMSGFMT=/sw/bin/msgfmt
and
ac_cv_path_MSGFMT=/sw/bin/msgfmt
but
gt_cv_have_gettext=no

so the test
if test "$gt_cv_have_gettext" != "yes"
succeeds, and the build fails because "Cannot find Glib Gettext"


Does distcheck do something strange with environment variables?

gt_cv_have_gettext=yes when I build either from a tarball or trunk  
without distcheck.

Dave
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David Reiser
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