Hi, It's solved. It's a nasty small bug in gettext.m4.
#ifndef __GNU_GETTEXT_SUPPORTED_REVISION #define __GNU_GETTEXT_SUPPORTED_REVISION(major) ((major) == 0 ? 0 : -1) #endif changequote(,)dnl typedef int array [2 * (__GNU_GETTEXT_SUPPORTED_REVISION(0) >= 1) - 1]; changequote([,])dnl This is always expanded to a negative array size which makes configure exand like this: [...] checking whether to use NLS... no [...] This happens with all installations that have a libintl.h missing macro __GNU_GETTEXT_SUPPORT_REVISION. After changing this definition to #ifndef __GNU_GETTEXT_SUPPORTED_REVISION #define __GNU_GETTEXT_SUPPORTED_REVISION(major) ((major) == 0 ? 1 : -1) #endif configure was happy: [...] checking whether to use NLS... yes [...] and I get a full locale/*/*/* install tree. I'll forward this issue to the gettext people. On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Martin Jacobs wrote: > On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Jim Meyering wrote: > > > Eric Blake wrote: > > > According to Jim Meyering on 11/13/2009 9:58 AM: > > >> Martin Jacobs wrote: > > >> ... > > >>> Back to coreutils, with that in mind I > > >>> did change configure.ac: > > >>> > > >>> AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], [need-formatstring-macros]) > > >>> > > >>> reads now > > >>> > > >>> AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], [need-ngettext]) > > > > > > What about Bruno's comments here? > > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2009-08/msg00006.html > > > > Thanks for pointing that out. > > It looks like I didn't read enough. > > > > > Unlike bison, coreutils does indeed use formatstring macros (for example, > > > dd.c). Dropping the requirement to need-ngettext instead of > > > need-formatstring-macros will cause crashes if those strings are ever > > > translated. > > > > At least with gettext-0.17, it appears to work fine using > > just-built/installed dd: > > > > $ seq 99|LC_ALL=fr_FR.utf8 dd > /dev/null > > 0+1 enregistrements lus > > 0+1 enregistrements écrits > > 288 octets (288 B) copiés, 9,5487e-05 s, 3,0 MB/s > > > > I suspect you'd have to build in an environment that has ngettext > > support but that lacks formatstring macro support to elicit a crash. > > > > I'll probably revert my change. > > > > Ok, I did play a little bit with all of that. So far, > compiling with AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], [need-ngettext]) > seems to work but gettext seems to be clever enough to ignore > incompatible compilations offered in coreutils.mo. "My" new dd > (from coreutils 7.6) gives me english messages although > LC_MESSAGES is set to de_DE. > > So I've to go back to the root of the problem, that configure > fails to detect need-formatstring-macros. > [...] > Thanks for your support Martin -- Dipl-Ing. Martin Jacobs * Windsbach * [email protected] und [email protected] * ICQ:153921785 Registered Linux User #87175, http://counter.li.org/
