diff configure.ac @ 20892:bbcc9e206c43

propagate from branch 'im.pidgin.pidgin' (head f33ba0034c79d8e37a70d664ec534356fa361608) to branch 'im.pidgin.cpw.resiak.disconnectreason' (head b3c8182bd741b961775afed0768fbecdc47dc828)
author Will Thompson <will.thompson@collabora.co.uk>
date Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:19:12 +0000
parents bc1e6ea98445
children f34539eb7a61 d604027959a5
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--- a/configure.ac	Thu Oct 11 23:55:13 2007 +0000
+++ b/configure.ac	Fri Oct 12 00:19:12 2007 +0000
@@ -142,13 +142,21 @@
 dnl If we don't have msgfmt, then po/ is going to fail -- ensure that
 dnl AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT found it.
 
-if test x$MSGFMT = xno
+if test x$MSGFMT = xno -o x$MSGFMT$GMSGFMT = x
 then
 	AC_ERROR([
 
 The msgfmt command is required to build libpurple.  If it is installed
 on your system, ensure that it is in your path.  If it is not, install
 GNU gettext to continue.
+
+If you have msgfmt installed, but for some reason this error message
+is still displayed, you have encountered what appears to be a bug in
+third-party configure macros.  Try setting the MSGFMT environment
+variable to the absolute path to your msgfmt binary and trying
+configure again, like this:
+
+MSGFMT=/path/to/msgfmt ./configure ...
 ])
 fi