James Youngman wrote: > I just got a bug report where the configure output featured this:
The output is from the AM_PO_SUBDIRS macro (part of AM_GNU_GETTEXT). > checking for msgfmt... no > checking for gmsgfmt... : > ./configure: line 31597: 25678 Trace/BPT trap > $ac_dir/$ac_word --statistics /dev/null 1>&5 2>&1 This is testing the msgfmt program. > checking for xgettext... no > ./configure: line 31720: 25718 Trace/BPT trap > $ac_dir/$ac_word --omit-header --copyright-holder= > --msgid-bugs-address= /dev/null 1>&5 2>&1 This is testing the xgettext program. > checking for msgmerge... no > checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld > checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... no > checking for shared library run path origin... ./configure: line > 31797: 25751 Trace/BPT trap $ac_dir/$ac_word --update -q > /dev/null /dev/null 1>&5 2>&1 > done This is testing the msgmerge program. It looks like the tester has some msgfmt, xgettext, msgmerge programs in the PATH that were built for a different OS, and which don't run due to binary incompatibilities. Bruno
