ninja install failing (msgfmt ITS rules issue)

[phocean]

Hi,

I am on openSUSE Tumbleweed, so I am installing from source.

It fails on:

% sudo ninja -C builddir install                      
ninja: Entering directory `builddir'
[1/2] 'Generating nautilus-git.metainfo.xml_merge with a custom command.'
FAILED: data/nautilus-git.metainfo.xml 
'msgfmt' '--xml' '--template' '../data/nautilus-git.metainfo.xml.in' '-d' '../data/../po' '-o' 'data/nautilus-git.metainfo.xml'
msgfmt: Impossible de localiser les règles ITS pour ../data/nautilus-git.metainfo.xml.in
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

The message is cryptic to me, sorry.

[bilelmoussaoui]

As i'm not an expert with gettext and all the translations stuff, i will redirect you to this issue mesonbuild/meson#1565
it seems that you have some missing its files.

[TingPing]

Have gettext >= 0.19.6 and have the dev package for libappstream-glib installed.

[phocean]

Thank you. But I have libappstream-glib8 and gettext version 0.19.8.1 (tumbleweed is very up-to-date as it is the rolling release).

Here is what I have in the its folder:

% ls /usr/share/gettext/its
gschema.its  gschema.loc  gtkbuilder.its  gtkbuilder.loc

Do you have more files ?

[bilelmoussaoui]

@phocean Yep

ls /usr/share/gettext/its/                                                     
appdata.its  gnome-keybindings.its  gschema.its  gtkbuilder.its  polkit.its
appdata.loc  gnome-keybindings.loc  gschema.loc  gtkbuilder.loc  polkit.loc

[TingPing]

But I have libappstream-glib8

I specifically said the dev package because most distros split the itstool files out.

[phocean]

Hmm, it seems I am doomed.
For instance:

% zypper search --provides --match-exact "/usr/share/gettext/its/appdata.its"

returns nothing.

And the distribution does not seem to have a libappstream-glib8 devel package. I will try to get the info from an openSUSE source...

[bilelmoussaoui]

@phocean I've never used openSUSE before, I can't help you with that. Anyway, if you find which package was missing can you write a comment here with the package name? for future openSUSE users.
Closing

[TingPing]

Many GNOME projects have been moving from intltool to gettext this past year, so I'm not sure it makes sense to not be packaged.

[phocean]

Hi, problem solved with installing appstream-glib-devel.

I don't know why I missed this package the other time, probably got confused by the naming.
Thank you for the hints and keep up the good work ;-)

[eexpress]

Have gettext >= 0.19.6 and have the dev package for libappstream-glib installed.

dnf install libappstream-glib-devel. I think you need add this into README. :D

[bilelmoussaoui]

@eexpress mind sending a PR?

[archisman-panigrahi]

In Ubuntu 20.04, installing the package appstream solved a similar issue.

libappstream-glib-dev did not work in Ubuntu.