gettext.m4: xgettest detection is bogus

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Fri Jun 9 21:39:00 GMT 2006


On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 03:14:32PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> 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

If you have a chance, could you check if the new intl gets this right?
(HEAD, not 2.17 branch).

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery



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