Re: [platform-testers] texinfo pretest

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello Gavin,

Follow-up to this issue:

On 05/17/2015 11:49 AM, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On 17 May 2015 at 16:26, Gavin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > On FreeBSD 9.3 - build failed due to "Error expanding embedded variable." -
> > > perhaps 'make' related.
> >
> > I'm trying to search the Web for information but everyone has said so
> > far "use GNU make instead". :-(
> It's just a guess but I am wondering if in this line,
>
> GMSGFMT = $(GMSGFMT_$(USE_MSGCTXT))

The issue is likely due to using a buggy gettext 0.19 (problem fixed in 
0.19.1), see here:
 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2015-05/msg00015.html
 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2015-05/msg00016.html

The fix is to require at least version 0.19.1 and rerun 'gettextize -f':
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2015-05/msg00020.html

For verification, I'd recommend also checking this after 'gettexttize':
  $ grep ^PO_DEP po/Makevars*
  po/Makevars:PO_DEPENDS_ON_POT = yes
  po/Makevars.template:PO_DEPENDS_ON_POT = yes


regards,
 - assaf