You may be interested in these notes I sent to bug-binutils 2 months ago:
I'm not thrilled about what happened on solaris...
marty
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From: Leisner, Martin
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Subject: -lintl is not being picked up on solaris 2.8 with binutils 2.14
I don't know much about gettext...
But I recently had to make binutils 2.14 and it wouldn't make without
--with-included-gettext.
I just made gettext-0.13 and installed it.
I went back and tried to make binutils
No luck -- after some head scratching and reading libintl.h, I noticed
that binutils wasn't appending -lintl anywhere...
In binutils/binutils when I
make INTLLIBS=-lintl
it makes with no problem...
But autoconf isn't detecting INTTLIBS=-lintl (it sets
INTTLIBS to null).
Also, when I type
make INTTLIBS=-lintl
at the top level, -lintl doesn't get passed down...
Not sure I understand why...
marty
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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 14:45:39 EST
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Subject: RE: -lintl is not being picked up on solaris 2.8 with binutils 2. 14
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I installed gettext before I configured binutils.
I also had the last gettext (0.13) installed in /usr/local.
When I configured again on solaris8, I got:
checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking whether included gettext is requested... no
checking for libintl.h... yes
checking for gettext in libc... no
checking for bindtextdomain in -lintl... yes
checking for gettext in libintl... yes
checking for msgfmt... /usr/local/bin/msgfmt
checking for dcgettext... yes
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/local/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/local/bin/xgettext
updating cache .././config.cache
I also had these problems in a previous 2.14 build...it doesn't appear
to have been a problem on 2.13.1 (not positive) --
this is on solaris with a gettext installed --
don't know about how it works without a gettext installed.
marty
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Clifton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 11:25 AM
> To: Leisner, Martin
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> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: -lintl is not being picked up on solaris 2.8
> with binutils 2.14
>
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> > But I recently had to make binutils 2.14 and it wouldn't make
> > without --with-included-gettext.
>
> Did you try configuring with "--disable-nls" instead ?
>
>
> > I just made gettext-0.13 and installed it.
> > I went back and tried to make binutils
>
> Do you start again from scratch - ie running configure, or did you
> just run "make" in the binutils top-level directory ? Without a
> reconfigure it is unlikely that binutils will detect the newly
> installed gettext.
>
>
> > No luck -- after some head scratching and reading libintl.h, I
> > noticed that binutils wasn't appending -lintl anywhere...
>
> Probably because when configure ran gettext was not installed, and
> when you ran make again it was just using the cached values and not
> re-running configure.
>
> > Also, when I type
> > make INTTLIBS=-lintl
> > at the top level, -lintl doesn't get passed down...
> >
> > Not sure I understand why...
>
> INTLLIBS is not one of those variables that gets passed down
> recursively when building binutils. It is supposed to be set inside
> the binutils sub-directory when configure is run there.
>
> Cheers
> Nick
>
>
