error while opening "si.1po" for reading: No such file or directory

[sj-mx]

During make of 3.5.0 on a funtoo system, the following error is generated:

rm -f si.gmo && /usr/bin/msgmerge --for-msgfmt -o si.1po si.po icewm.pot && /usr/bin/gmsgfmt -c --statistics --verbose -o si.gmo si.1po && rm -f si.1po /usr/bin/gmsgfmt: error while opening "si.1po" for reading: No such file or directory make[3]: [Makefile:293: si.gmo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/x/dev/icewm-3.5.0/po' make[2]: [Makefile:336: stamp-po] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/x/dev/icewm-3.5.0/po' make[1]: [Makefile:595: all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/x/dev/icewm-3.5.0' make: [Makefile:477: all] Error 2

I notice that

msgmerge --for-msgfmt si.po icewm.pot

produces no output.

[gijsbers]

Do the following: cd to your icewm-3.5.0/po directory. Then break down the make command in small steps and examine each output and exit code. /usr/bin/msgmerge --for-msgfmt -o si.1po si.po icewm.pot should produce an output file s1.1po on the basis of the si.po input file. Check that previous similar commands succeeded. Why only the si language file?

[gijsbers]

Otherwise use the brute force make -k and see where that gets you.

Otherwise use the rebuild.sh script to use CMake as explained on the website or read the INSTALL-cmakebuild.md file.

[sj-mx]

@gijsbers note that I already broke the command down to:

msgmerge --for-msgfmt si.po icewm.pot

Given that the output of msgmerge is what goes into si.1po and that no output is produced by it, I assume there is an issue inside si.po. In fact, after copying some other .po as si.po the make concluded successfully and now I am happily running icewm under funtoo.

Let me know if there is anything else that I can do to fix this. And by the way, thanks so much for your hard work.

Cheers.