# HG changeset patch
# User Ethan Blanton <elb@pidgin.im>
# Date 1192123779 0
# Node ID bc1e6ea98445f58692f4510512fb917b84e9c0b7
# Parent  38b12aff6d5a4a4e7f106dc332858a412bbbce63
Try to fix msgfmt detection *again*.  If this doesn't work, we'll
probably have to start writing our own macros for this junk, which I
greatly desire to NOT do.

diff -r 38b12aff6d5a -r bc1e6ea98445 configure.ac
--- a/configure.ac	Wed Oct 10 20:29:16 2007 +0000
+++ b/configure.ac	Thu Oct 11 17:29:39 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