GNU bug report logs - #64848
/usr/bin/autopoint: line 505: /usr/share/gettext/archive.dir.tar.xz: No such file or directory

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From: Sajjad Ali <a.sajjad.72 <at> outlook.com>
To: "bug-grep <at> gnu.org" <bug-grep <at> gnu.org>
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

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I was trying to build grep for windows using MSYS2.
Why using MSYS2 for building grep. How does MSYS2 differ from Cygwin?<https://www.msys2.org/wiki/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 <at> 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 <at> 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 <at> 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 <at> 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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Message #10 received at 64848-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Sajjad Ali <a.sajjad.72 <at> outlook.com>, 64848-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#64848: /usr/bin/autopoint: line 505:
 /usr/share/gettext/archive.dir.tar.xz: No such file or directory
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 08:03:58 -0700

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

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:

$ rpm -qf /usr/share/gettext/archive.dir.tar.xz
gettext-common-devel-0.21.1-2.fc38.noarch

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