can't build a gettext package

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:57:25AM -0500, daniel quinn wrote:
> i've managed to build packages for everything else on the system, and gettext 
> seems to compile and install just fine, but for some reason, building the 
> package fails:
> 
>   ===>  Building package for gettext-0.14.1
>   Creating package /usr/ports/packages/All/gettext-0.14.1.tbz
>   Registering depends: libiconv-1.9.2_1.
>   Creating bzip'd tar ball in '/usr/ports/packages/All/gettext-0.14.1.tbz'
>   tar: include/autosprintf.h: Could not stat: No such file or directory
>   tar: lib/libasprintf.a: Could not stat: No such file or directory
>   tar: lib/libasprintf.so: Could not stat: No such file or directory
>   tar: lib/libasprintf.so.0: Could not stat: No such file or directory
>   tar: share/doc/libasprintf/autosprintf.html: Could not stat: No such file or
>   directory 
>   pkg_create: make_dist: tar command failed with code 256
>   *** Error code 1
> 
> now i understand what the error means, what i don't understand is why the 
> error exists in the first place.  if these files aren't created with the 
> initial make, why is the packager trying to include them?  and how do i fix 
> this?

Those files are expected to be installed when the package is built on
FreeBSD.  Since your system didn't build them, there must be something
different about it.  You could check the output of the configure and
build scripts to find out why, or just use a precompiled package from
the FTP site if you don't care this much.

Kris

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