[Fedora-xen] Tryimg to build virt-manager from mercurial: getting error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT - why ?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 05:50:12PM +0300, Mark Ryden wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have Fedora Core 6 on x86_64 machine.
> I want to build the virt-manager latest from mercurial repository.
> I follwed the instructions on the web:
> http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/scmrepo.html
> 
> I had performed
> "hg clone  http://hg.et.redhat.com/virt/applications/virt-manager--devel"
> 
> and them ran:
> 
> ./autobuild.sh
> make: *** No rule to make target `distclean'.
> aclocal:configure.ac:6: warning: macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION' not
> found in library
> aclocal:configure.ac:7: warning: macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library
> configure.ac: installing `./install-sh'
> configure.ac: installing `./missing'
> src/graphWidgets/Makefile.am: installing `./compile'
> src/graphWidgets/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp'
> configure.ac:6: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION
>      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>      See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure.ac:7: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT
> 
> I have on this FC6:  gettext-0.14.6-3.fc6, (from rpm of
> the original installation) , intltool-0.35.5 (build from source).
> 
> Why is it so ? what should I do ?

Sounds like you are missing  the 'gettext-devel' package

$ grep -l AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION /usr/share/aclocal/*.m4
/usr/share/aclocal/gettext.m4

$ rpm -qf /usr/share/aclocal/gettext.m4
gettext-devel-0.14.6-4.fc6


Regards,
Dan.
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