Re: amd64

* Wichmann, Mats D <[email protected]> [040216 15:39]:
> 
> > > The test for msgfmt is embedded in autoconf, it
> > > doesn't even appear in the configure.in scripts,
> > > but is generated into the configure scripts,
> > > so it's effectively...everywhere.
> > 
> > This seems to be avoidable by  
> > 'export MSGFMT=<path_to_msgfmt>'
> > No check will be done then, and gettext is used from glibc
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Does that require a real copy of msgfmt to be installed
> and be pointed to, or is the mere fact of pointing to
> *something* enough to get what we want?

Apparently it's not neccessary to point to the real binary.
At least phase2 continues to compile until texinfo stumbles 
over libncurses being in /lib, not /lib64.
(Which happens a lot later)

> 
> Mats
> 

Stefan
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