[Sugar-devel] Generating a pot file without the setup script ?

[James Cameron]

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 07:30:04PM +0200, laurent bernabe wrote:
> I tried generating pot from sugar image, but i had a python error (i went in ~/
> Activities/LearningActivity.activity/ folder)
> $ ./setup.py genpot
> => errors :
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./setup.py", line 24, in <module>
>     bundlebuilder.start()
>   File "/opt/sweets/sugar-toolkit/src/sugar/activity/bundlebuilder.py", line
> 382, in start
>     globals()['cmd_' + args[0]](config, args[1:])
>   File "/opt/sweets/sugar-toolkit/src/sugar/activity/bundlebuilder.py", line
> 344, in cmd_genpot
>     retcode = subprocess.call(args)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 480, in call
>     return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 633, in __init__
>     errread, errwrite)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 1139, in _execute_child
>     raise child_exception
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> 
> So, how could i correct it ?

Install the gettext package.

(The error shows that xgettext binary cannot be called by the
subprocess.  I looked at line 382 in
sugar-toolkit/src/sugar/activity/bundlebuilder.py to find out what it
was doing and saw xgettext was referenced, so it is likely that you
haven't got it installed.)

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James Cameron
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