bug#64848: closed (/usr/bin/autopoint: line 505: /usr/share/gettext/archive.dir.tar.xz: No such file or directory)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: /usr/bin/autopoint: line 505: /usr/share/gettext/archive.dir.tar.xz: No such file or directory Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 09:49:51 +0000

I was trying to build grep for windows using MSYS2.

Why using MSYS2 for building grep. How does MSYS2 differ from Cygwin? 

All the pre-requisites are installed.

$ pacman -Q autoconf automake gettext git gperf gzip help2man m4 make pkg-config tar texinfo wget xz

autoconf-wrapper 20221207-1

automake-wrapper 20221207-1

gettext 0.22-1

git 2.41.0-1

gperf 3.1-5

gzip 1.12-2

help2man 1.49.3-1

m4 1.4.19-2

make 4.4.1-1

pkgconf 1.9.4-1

tar 1.34-3

texinfo 7.0.3-3

wget 1.21.4-1

xz 5.4.3-1

while executing the command  ./bootstrap it gives an error:

/usr/bin/autopoint: line 505: /usr/share/gettext/archive.dir.tar.xz: No such file or directory

tar: This does not look like a tar archive

tar: gettext-0.18.2: Not found in archive

tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

autopoint: *** infrastructure files for version 0.18.2 not found; this is autopoint from GNU gettext-tools 0.22

autopoint: *** Stop.

./bootstrap: could not generate auxiliary files

here is the complete log of ./bootstrap:

$ ./bootstrap

./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out grep sources...

./bootstrap: getting gnulib files...

./bootstrap: consider installing git-merge-changelog from gnulib

./bootstrap: getting translations into po/.reference for grep...

Last-modified header missing -- time-stamps turned off.

2023-07-25 14:31:54 URL:https://translationproject.org/latest/grep/ [9247] -> "po/.reference/index.html.tmp" [1]

https://translationproject.org/robots.txt:

2023-07-25 14:31:54 ERROR 404: Not Found.

Last-modified header missing -- time-stamps turned off.

2023-07-25 14:31:54 URL:https://translationproject.org/latest/grep/?C=N;O=D [9247] -> "po/.reference/index.html@C=N;O=D.tmp" [1]

Last-modified header missing -- time-stamps turned off.

2023-07-25 14:31:55 URL:https://translationproject.org/latest/grep/?C=M;O=A [9247] -> "po/.reference/index.html@C=M;O=A.tmp" [1]

Last-modified header missing -- time-stamps turned off.

2023-07-25 14:31:55 URL:https://translationproject.org/latest/grep/?C=S;O=A [9247] -> "po/.reference/index.html@C=S;O=A.tmp" [1]

Last-modified header missing -- time-stamps turned off.

2023-07-25 14:31:55 URL:https://translationproject.org/latest/grep/?C=D;O=A [9247] -> "po/.reference/index.html@C=D;O=A.tmp" [1]

Last-modified header missing -- time-stamps turned off.

2023-07-25 14:31:55 URL:https://translationproject.org/latest/ [30430] -> "po/.reference/index.html.tmp" [1]

FINISHED --2023-07-25 14:32:06--

Total wall clock time: 14s

Downloaded: 6 files, 75K in 0.2s (337 KB/s)

./bootstrap: autopoint --force

/usr/bin/autopoint: line 505: /usr/share/gettext/archive.dir.tar.xz: No such file or directory

tar: This does not look like a tar archive

tar: gettext-0.18.2: Not found in archive

tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

autopoint: *** infrastructure files for version 0.18.2 not found; this is autopoint from GNU gettext-tools 0.22

autopoint: *** Stop.

./bootstrap: could not generate auxiliary files

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> On 2023-07-25 02:49, Sajjad Ali wrote:
> > /usr/bin/autopoint: line 505: /usr/share/gettext/archive.dir.tar.xz: No such 
> > file or directory
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> You need to install development packages, not just end-user packages. So 
> for gettext you need 'gettext-devel' or something like that. Here's what 
> I see on Fedora 38:
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> $ rpm -qf /usr/share/gettext/archive.dir.tar.xz
> gettext-common-devel-0.21.1-2.fc38.noarch
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