libbfd.so dependency on libintl

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Thu Aug 14 17:35:00 GMT 2008


On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:06:32AM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
>> Does anyone see a problem with this patch?
>
> What problem is it solving ?

When you build binutils under uClibc, libbfd.so has undefined
references to functions from binutils's copy of libintl (which,
incidentally, is not installed).  Therefore it can not be loaded.

> Did you test building under Cygwin, Mingw, Linux with glibc and Linux  
> with uClibc ?

No, but I'll do that when I get back from vacation.

To the other person who asked, no, this does not effect --disable-nls.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery



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