MacPorts gettext problems

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 9, 2007, at 02:12, Jason Williams wrote:

> I'm a bit new to macports and am installing a few ports that require
> gettext. However upon my attempts to install gettext, i recieve the
> following. I tried googling around to no avail...any direction would
> be much appreciated, thank you!

Welcome to MacPorts!


> Macintosh:~ JAe$ sudo port install gettext
> --->  Building gettext with target all
> Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command " cd
> "/opt/local/var/macports/build/ 
> _opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel 
> _gettext/work/gettext-0.17"
> && make all " returned error 2
> Command output: make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
> Making all in libgrep
> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> Making all in src
> make  all-am
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
> Making all in libgettextpo
> make  all-am
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
> Making all in po
> Making all in projects
> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> Making all in styles
> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> Making all in misc
> WARNING: Warnings can be ignored. :-)
> if test "emacs" != no; then \
> 	  set x; \
> 	  list='start-po.el po-mode.el po-compat.el'; for p in $list; do \
> 	    if test -f "$p"; then d=; else d="./"; fi; \
> 	    set x "$@" "$d$p"; shift; \
> 	  done; \
> 	  shift; \
> 	  EMACS="emacs" /bin/sh ../../build-aux/elisp-comp "$@" || exit 1; \
> 	else : ; fi
> Fatal malloc_jumpstart() error
> make[3]: *** [elc-stamp] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
> Macintosh:~ JAe$
>
> *I'm on a Macbook using 10.5 if it matters..

Ah yes, that would be this bug again:

http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/13381

I keep forgetting to do something about that. But there's a patch  
shown there that you should be able to use for now.