libtool not finding /usr/lib/libintl.la or what?

[Marco Atzeri]

On 01/07/2017 09:18, Mark Geisert wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jul 2017, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> On 01/07/2017 07:47, Mark Geisert wrote:
>>> Esteemed co-conspirators,
>>> I've been pulling my hair out trying to build a new cygutils package on
>>> 32-bit Cygwin.  The exact same source package builds fine on 64-bit but
>>> 32-bit fails with the following...
>>>
>>>   CC       src/ipc/semstat.o
>>>   CXX      src/cygdrop/src_cygdrop_cygdrop-cygdrop.o
>>>   CCLD     src/cygicons/libicons.la
>>>   CCLD     src/banner/banner.exe
>>> libtool:   error: cannot find the library '/usr/lib/libintl.la' or
>>> unhandled argument '/usr/lib/libintl.la'
>>
>> it is pulled by /usr/lib/libpopt.la.
>>
>>
>> try
>>
>> $ cd /usr/lib
>> $ mv libpopt.la libpopt.la_bk
>>
>> and run again make in build
>
> Amazing.  That does work.  But what is the correct way to deal with this
> when some random user wants to build 32-bit cygutils from source?
> Should the build procedure actually do what you suggested?  I could not
> figure out which package supplies (or used to supply) libintl.la for 32
> bits.
> Thanks much,
>
> ..mark

we should remove the not needed /usr/lib/*.la (not all)
as we did from start on the 64bit version