Bug 3418 – xscreensaver-4.04.2 won't compile

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Phil Bordelon (sunflare) 2002-06-05 09:06:47 UTC]

I had the same compilation problems when I tried to update the ebuild to work
with xscreensaver-4.03.  The problem is here:

--
make[1]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1.  Add `+' to parent make rule.
/usr/bin/msgfmt -o ca.gmo ca.po
/usr/bin/msgfmt: ca.po: warning: Charset "CHARSET" is not a portable encoding name.
                                 Message conversion to user's charset might not
work.
/usr/bin/msgfmt -o de.gmo de.po
/usr/bin/msgfmt: de.po: warning: Charset "CHARSET" is not a portable encoding name.
                                 Message conversion to user's charset might not
work.
/usr/bin/msgfmt -o et.gmo et.po
/usr/bin/msgfmt: et.po: warning: Charset "CHARSET" is not a portable encoding name.
                                 Message conversion to user's charset might not
work.
/usr/bin/msgfmt -o fr.gmo fr.po
/usr/bin/msgfmt: fr.po: warning: Charset "CHARSET" is not a portable encoding name.
                                 Message conversion to user's charset might not
work.
/usr/bin/msgfmt -o it.gmo it.po
/usr/bin/msgfmt: it.po: warning: Charset "CHARSET" is not a portable encoding name.
                                 Message conversion to user's charset might not
work.
/usr/bin/msgfmt -o ko.gmo ko.po
/usr/bin/msgfmt: ko.po: warning: Charset "CHARSET" is not a portable encoding name.
                                 Message conversion to user's charset might not
work.
/usr/bin/msgfmt -o pl.gmo pl.po
/usr/bin/msgfmt: pl.po: warning: Charset "CHARSET" is not a portable encoding name.
                                 Message conversion to user's charset might not
work.
/usr/bin/msgfmt -o sv.gmo sv.po
/usr/bin/msgfmt: sv.po: warning: Charset "CHARSET" is not a portable encoding name.
                                 Message conversion to user's charset might not
work.
/usr/bin/msgfmt -o da.gmo da.po
/usr/bin/msgfmt: da.po: warning: Charset "CHARSET" is not a portable encoding name.
                                 Message conversion to user's charset might not
work.
/usr/bin/msgfmt -o es.gmo es.po
es.po:6690: duplicate message definition
es.po:6127: ...this is the location of the first definition
/usr/bin/msgfmt: found 1 fatal error
make[1]: *** [es.gmo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/xscreensaver-4.04.2/work/xscreensaver-4.04/po'
make: *** [default] Error 5
--

It looks like the localization isn't working right.  Perhaps I don't have the
right codepages installed or whatever, but the build shouldn't die because of it.

[Comment 1 Spider (RETIRED) 2002-06-05 11:02:53 UTC]

Yeah, thats why I didn't submit it..
I've spoken to jwz about it... his only reply is "sure, give me a patch" and "it
works on my system"

reason is that old versions of gettext allowed htis whereas new versions don't.

some gnome2 hackers have been at this, ask around at irc.gimp.org in #gnome and see.

[Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-06-05 16:38:04 UTC]

I've masked this out for now.

[Comment 3 Phil Bordelon (sunflare) 2002-06-05 17:29:22 UTC]

Created attachment 1357 [details, diff]
patch for es.po in the po/ directory

I hacked es.po so that the compile would get past it.

My patch is attached.

[Comment 4 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-06-08 21:25:54 UTC]

Phil,

I guess I forgot to close this bug report, since your patch was added into
portage a while ago :)