Re: gettext does not install executables on RedHat 9

[Rocco J Pigneri]

Dear Mr. Haible,

I ran "make install" multiple times.  I know that I ran it multiple
times because the package that needed gettext could not find gettext
no matter how many times I "make install"ed it.  I finally did a
search for the files that the configure script kept requiring and
found that they were sitting in
/usr/src/gettext-0.14/gettext-tools/src/msgfmt.  There also seem to be
copies in /usr/src/gettext-0.14/gettext-tools/src/.libs/msgfmt, but I
didn't touch those because the other versions worked.  Running "make
install" in the /usr/src/gettext-0.14/gettext-tools/src/ directory
didn't help the problem either.

Hope that helps,

Rocco Pigneri

 - --- Original Message Follows --- -

> I was trying to install gettext on a stripped down RedHat Linux 9 box
> (just Apache and php were installed with the OS).  I noticed that make
> would build everything, but that the executables would not be copied
> to any path directory (i.e. /usr/bin).  I had to manually copy them in
> order to compile glib which required them.

Did you run "make install" after "make"?

The default installation location (when you called "configure" without
options) is to /usr/local/, i.e. the binaries should be installed in
/usr/local/bin.

If you called "configure --prefix=/usr" then the binaries will go
to /usr/bin. Unless you don't have write permissions there...

If you copy executables by yourself without doing "make install", you're
likely to install things incorrectly, because there is a big number of
executables, libraries, documentation and data files, and you cannot know
which one should go where.

Bruno