Well, my Ubuntu 10.04 still has gettext 0.17, and attemps to install Ubuntu 12.04 so far only resulted in crashing of VirtualBox. I am not to keen on upgrading anyway; I still regret the day I upgraded from 8.04 to 10.04 on my laptop, because half of it doesn't function anymore since I did (stuttering sound, and no USB). The higher the version, the more crappy these things seem to get.
It seems furthermore strange that we would have to REQUIRE 0.18 in the configure while in fact XBoard would compile perfectly with 0.17 if you have that installed. This cannot be a proper solution. The entire purpose of 'configure' is to figure out WHAT you have installed, and use that if it can do the job. So it seems to me that this is a bug in autoconf or the data we feed it, and that requiring a higher version number is just a work-around. I would like to see a patch for a proper solution, that can use both gettext 0.17 and 0.18 depending on which happens to be installed. _______________________________________________ Bug-XBoard mailing list Bug-XBoard@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard
