gettext.m4: xgettest detection is bogus

Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de
Sat Jun 10 10:34:00 GMT 2006


On Fri, 2006-06-09 17:08:48 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 03:14:32PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > 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).

Sure; I'm just at updating the sources and will compile the stuff once
the update has finished. Though it'll take some time on this box.

MfG, JBG

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