Re: Fink Clean Install Failure

On 10/16/23 3:30 PM, David Axler wrote:
> I am trying to do a clean install of the most recent Fink.
> 
> I am using a Late 2013 Mac Pro with Mac OS X Monterey 12.7.
> 
> I have followed the instructions posted on 9/23/23 at finkproject.org <http://finkproject.org/>, and am using the “fink-upstream” source.
> 
> At the start of the install, after entering my password for sudo, I was informed that my OS was not released at the
> time the Fink release was created. Here is the relevant info provided by the installer:
> Checking package... looks good (fink-0.45.99.git).
> Checking system... x86_64-apple-darwin21.6.0
> This system was not released at the time this Fink release was made.
> Prerelease versions of macOS might work with Fink, but there are no guarantees.
> Distribution: 12.0
> Architecture: x86_64
> Checking cc... looks good.
> Checking make... looks good.
> Checking head... looks good.
> Verifying that installed Xcode Command Line Tools version is supported...
> 14.2.0.0.1.1668646533 is OK
> Verifying that installed Xcode app version is supported...
> Found Xcode version: 14.2 is OK.
> 
> The install fails during the build of dpkg-bootstrap-1.19.7-1, in the section designated “Making all in po”, as follows:
> 
> Making all in po
> test ! -f ./dpkg.pot || \
> 	  test -z "ast.gmo bs.gmo ca.gmo cs.gmo da.gmo de.gmo dz.gmo el.gmo eo.gmo es.gmo et.gmo eu.gmo fr.gmo gl.gmo hu.gmo id.gmo it.gmo ja.gmo km.gmo ko.gmo ku.gmo lt.gmo mr.gmo nb.gmo ne.gmo nl.gmo nn.gmo pa.gmo pl.gmo pt.gmo pt_BR.gmo ro.gmo ru.gmo sk.gmo sv.gmo th.gmo tl.gmo tr.gmo vi.gmo zh_CN.gmo zh_TW.gmo" || /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make ast.gmo bs.gmo ca.gmo cs.gmo da.gmo de.gmo dz.gmo el.gmo eo.gmo es.gmo et.gmo eu.gmo fr.gmo gl.gmo hu.gmo id.gmo it.gmo ja.gmo km.gmo ko.gmo ku.gmo lt.gmo mr.gmo nb.gmo ne.gmo nl.gmo nn.gmo pa.gmo pl.gmo pt.gmo pt_BR.gmo ro.gmo ru.gmo sk.gmo sv.gmo th.gmo tl.gmo tr.gmo vi.gmo zh_CN.gmo zh_TW.gmo
> : --update --previous --add-location=file --quiet --lang=ast ast.po dpkg.pot
> /bin/sh: msgmerge: command not found
> rm -f ast.gmo && : -c --statistics --verbose -o ast.gmo ast.po
> mv: rename t-ast.gmo to ast.gmo: No such file or directory

msgmerge should have been created much earlier in the install process 
(as part of the gettext-tools package). Can you search through the build 
output to see if there's an earlier error related to that?

Hanspeter

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