mrfixit,
I get this:
$ make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/asdf/programs/amule/cvswork/amule-cvs'
Making all in m4
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/asdf/programs/amule/cvswork/amule-cvs/m4'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/asdf/programs/amule/cvswork/amule-cvs/m4'
Making all in intl
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/asdf/programs/amule/cvswork/amule-cvs/intl'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/asdf/programs/amule/cvswork/amule-cvs/intl'
Making all in po
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/asdf/programs/amule/cvswork/amule-cvs/po'
rm -f en_GB.gmo && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c --statistics -o en_GB.gmo en_GB.po
0 translated messages, 459 untranslated messages.
rm -f es.gmo && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c --statistics -o es.gmo es.po
1007 translated messages.
rm -f de.gmo && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c --statistics -o de.gmo de.po
1283 translated messages.
rm -f fr.gmo && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c --statistics -o fr.gmo fr.po
1263 translated messages, 9 untranslated messages.
rm -f it.gmo && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c --statistics -o it.gmo it.po
1272 translated messages.
rm -f ko.gmo && /usr/bin/msgfmt -c --statistics -o ko.gmo ko.po
...
From the directories in your messages, i guess you probably opened the tar on top of an existing amule dir. Another thing, check that you have the package gettext installed. I have gettext-0.14.1-0.fdr.0.1.rpm here. Your distro may have a different package manager, but anyway, check that you have gettext. You are getting a colon where there should be /usr/bin/msgfmt.
Let me suggest you this step by step procedure:
1) Download this file to an empty directory:
http://amule.hirnriss.net/cvs/aMule-cvs-20040826.tar.bz22) $ tar jxvf aMule-cvs-20040826.tar.bz2
3) $ cd amule-cvs
4) $ ./configure --enable-debug --disable-optimize --enable-verbose --enable-webserver --enable-amulecmd
5) $ make
That should do it. Notice that --enable-webserver --enable-amulecmd are to be given only if you want to build these programs.
Cheers!