About installing gettext on MAC OS X 10.5

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 26, 2009, at 14:56, ShaoYuanzheng wrote:

> Hi there,?
> I try to install gettext on my MAC OS X 10.5 by MacPort.
> The following is the detailed message:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> g204:~ root# port install gettext
> ---> ?Fetching gettext
> ---> ?Verifying checksum(s) for gettext
> ---> ?Extracting gettext
> ---> ?Applying patches to gettext
> ---> ?Configuring gettext
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Then the install stop here...
>
> After I step into the following directory?
> /opt/local/var/macports/distfiles/gettext/gettext-0.17
> Then I run the ./configure
> The install stop here:?
> checking for Java compiler...?
>
> So I think I found the porblem, that is the installation try to use  
> GCJ to compile the gettext, right? But I really do not know how to  
> resolve this problem.
> Can you help me?

Hello. I'm not sure if I can help. I suggest we continue this  
discussion on macports-users, which I have Cc'd on this message, so  
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I was not aware that gettext made use of gcj, but apparently it does.  
 From the DEPENDENCIES document:

* A Java runtime and compiler (e.g. GNU gcj or kaffe).
   + Recommended.
     Needed for building libintl.jar.  Also needed for 'msgfmt' and
     'msgunfmt', so that they can handle Java classes and properties  
files.

Note it says recommended, not required. I do not have "gcj" or  
"kaffe" on my system. Yet, libintl.jar appears to have been built. I  
do not know how.

Do you have "gcj" or "kaffe" on your system? If so, where are they,  
and where did they come from?

What version of Mac OS X and Xcode do you have, on what computer?