Make failing on Ubuntu 16.04

[tomwarner]

On master branch, made a minor change to add a try-catch in one file so it's practically clean. When I run make, I get a failure in what looks like the translation directory:

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make[2]: Entering directory '/home/tom/Projects/audacity/audacity/locale'
: --update  --lang=af af.po audacity.pot
rm -f af.gmo && : -c --statistics --verbose -o af.gmo af.po
mv: cannot stat 't-af.gmo': No such file or directory
Makefile:742: recipe for target 'af.gmo' failed
make[2]: *** [af.gmo] Error 1

Anyone know what to do? Thanks!

[steve]

made a minor change to add a try-catch in one file so it's practically clean

Does it build if it is "actually" clean (unmodified)?
What was the change?

[tomwarner]

Reset the file, build still fails for same reason.

Change was in src/import/Import.cpp line 501, I wrapped:

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auto inFile = plugin->Open(fName);

in a try-catch block:

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      std::unique_ptr<ImportFileHandle> inFile;
      try
      { 
         inFile = plugin->Open(fName);
      }
      catch (onst std::exception &e)
      {
         wxLogDebug(wxT("Open with %s failed, file may be corrupted"),plugin->GetPluginStringID().c_str());)
      }

[steve]

Did you try building Audacity before modifying the source code?

[tomwarner]

No, but I've reset it to a clean copy, and it's still failing. Anyway the error make throws doesn't seem to have anything to do with the file I modified.

[tomwarner]

Never mind; I installed "gettext" (which was not installed before) and it works now. I hit some other make errors after that, but was able to resolve them by installing build-essential and gnome-devel. Thanks though!

[steve]

Glad you got it working.

For the benefit of other readers, on Ubuntu / Debian based systems, "build-essential" is a prerequisite and should be installed first, then Audacity's other dependencies may be installed with the command:

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sudo apt-get build-dep audacity