gettext.m4: xgettest detection is bogus

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

Hi!

In gettext.m4 there's a test for "xgettext". Once it is found, it's
also checked to be the GNU version. If it is not, the local xgettext
is not considered useful and -lintl is dropped from $(LIBS).

Building on a Solaris 8 system, this would result in link errors
(because of missing -lintl). Also, if ggettext is pkg-get'ted, the
gxgettext program isn't considered by gettext.m4. Of course you'd
supply it with something like

XGETTEXT=/opt/csw/bin/gxgettext ..././src/binutils/configure

and also call "make" with XGETTEXT set (maybe some components are
configured late...), but that's not really nice:-)


Since I'm not really a m4 expert, maybe somebody else could fix the
gettext.m4 macros to do one of these:

	- Also check for gxgettext
	- Don't drop -lintl from $(LIBS), even if internationalized
	  program is not all _that_ international afterwards
	- Drop -lintl and disable NLS completely.

Thanks, JBG

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