[Sugar-devel] Error during phase build of etoys

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 02.02.2010, at 07:29, anirudh nair wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to build sugar using sugar-jhbuild. Etoys refused to build.
> The error message is posted below.  I'm using fedora 11.
> Pls help me in figuring out the problem.
> 
> 
> *** Building etoys *** [19/32]
> make  
> for dir in Content/po/* ; do \
>         domain=`basename $dir` ; \
>         for po in $dir/*.po ; do \
>             lang=`basename $po .po`; \
>             echo -n "${lang}: "  ; \
>             mkdir -p Content/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES ; \
>             msgfmt -v -o Content/locale/$lang/LC_MESSAGES/$domain.mo $po ; \
>         done \
>     done
> *: msgfmt: error while opening "Content/po/*/*.po" for reading: No such file or directory
> make: *** [Content/locale] Error 1

Are you sure there was no previous error? It sounds like the Content directory was not fully downloaded.

Try removing the etoys dir and build again:

rm -rf source/etoys
./sugar-jhbuild buildone etoys

If that fails, please report its whole output.

- Bert -