problems w/ gettext (irssi)

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 16, 2007, at 18:04, Brian Haag wrote:

> I'm trying to install irssi, which has gettext as a dep.  I'm getting:
[snip]
> 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
> ../../build-aux/elisp-comp: line 78:  3298 Bus error                
> $EMACS -batch -q -l script -f batch-byte-compile *.el
> make[3]: *** [elc-stamp] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>
> Error: The following dependencies failed to build: gettext glib2  
> pkgconfig openssl zlib
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
> mini:/usr/local/irssi brian$

Um... very weird! Apparently your emacs is crashing. Do you have an  
emacs port installed or is it using the system's emacs? gettext  
compiled just fine for me with the system's emacs. If you type "which  
emacs" what does it say? Mine says "/usr/bin/emacs". Can you run your  
emacs or does it also crash?


> There were other deps that built fine previous to this one.  I even  
> went and got the source for gettext (non darwin/mac ports) and  
> installed it, but it's not in the right place I guess.  I'm pretty  
> new with this stuff, and I'm not really sure where to go from  
> here.  Any help greatly appreciated.

MacPorts does not look for libraries anywhere else. With few  
exceptions, it only looks at libraries that were installed using  
MacPorts.