accountservice fails to build due to "msgfmt: cannot locate ITS rules for ../../../../jhbuild/checkout/accountsservice/data/org.freedesktop.accounts.policy.in"
accountservice
fails to build on Ubuntu 18.10 and 18.04 due to
[15/33] Compiling C object 'src/25a6634@@accounts-daemon@exe/util.c.o'.
../../../../jhbuild/checkout/accountsservice/src/util.c: In function 'setup_loginuid':
../../../../jhbuild/checkout/accountsservice/src/util.c:217:9: warning: ignoring return value of 'write', declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
write (fd, id, strlen (id));
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[16/33] Generating org.freedesktop.accounts.policy_data_merge with a custom command.
FAILED: data/org.freedesktop.accounts.policy
/root/jhbuild/install/bin/meson --internal msgfmthelper ../../../../jhbuild/checkout/accountsservice/data/org.freedesktop.accounts.policy.in data/org.freedesktop.accounts.policy xml /root/jhbuild/checkout/accountsservice/po
msgfmt: cannot locate ITS rules for ../../../../jhbuild/checkout/accountsservice/data/org.freedesktop.accounts.policy.in
[17/33] Generating act-user-enum-types.h with a meson_exe.py custom command.
[18/33] Compiling C object 'src/25a6634@@accounts-daemon@exe/daemon.c.o'.
[19/33] Compiling C object 'src/25a6634@@accounts-generated@sta/meson-generated_.._accounts-generated.c.o'.
[20/33] Compiling C object 'src/25a6634@@accounts-daemon@exe/user.c.o'.
[21/33] Compiling C object 'src/25a6634@@accounts-generated@sta/meson-generated_.._accounts-user-generated.c.o'.
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
Detailed logs can be found at https://gitlab.gnome.org/krichter/jhbuild/-/jobs/422739.
experienced with 3.34.0-5-g9a5715fd