------- Additional Comments From tim dot vanholder at anubex dot com 2004-11-16 07:56 ------- (In reply to comment #11) > --disable-nls doesn't kill the build, but it does give extra fails in > 22_locale > for the messages facet. This is expected.
Maybe so, but I never used --disable-nls, so whether or not fails are expected is pretty much irrelevant. > I'll close this next week unless somebody can tell me what the problem is. The problem is that the configury assumes that because glibc is present, it can simply include libintl.h and uses of gettext will Just Work(tm). However, on my system, gettext is installed separately alongside glibc, which means that libintl.h defines gettext as a macro that calls the library function libintl_gettext() (so that the libintl version, and not the glibc version, gets linked in). As a result, linking of abi_check fails because libintl_gettext is not found. I would expect something similar to happen if the included gettext is used, as that would also add the libintl_ prefix to avoid using the system's gettext(). It's not a _huge_ problem (it's easy enough to manually add -lintl to abi_check's link line in the makefile) but I would have expected it to be resolved quite a bit quicker, given the near-trivial fix. Come to think of it, because using the gnu locale implementation in this case adds a dependency of libstdc++ on libintl, g++ may need to use -lintl when linking programs (and if it did, that would also fix the libstdc++ build, as abi_check would link properly). So that is probably the better fix. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11074
