On Monday 21 Aug 00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > In my case, this forces -lintl for Linux and Solaris too, but that
> > didn't seem to cause any harm. (At least not yet...) It was
> > sufficient to get gimp built on all 4 platforms.
>
> This shouldn't work on all systems. Normally glibc2 system don't have
> a libintl and the linker will strike back if you still try to link
> against it.
Sure, but in the case of IRIX and OSF, configure found the gettext
routines by linking against -lintl. If that works, it ought to set
INTLLIBS accordingly. My hardcoding of -lintl wasn't meant to be a
general solution. I just meant to demonstrate that configure should
be setting this when it's required to find gettext routines. (Again, I
don't know why it doesn't look in -lintl for dcgettext.)
> This issue is not easy to solve.
You may be right about that. My personal suspicion is that the
autoconf rules associated with gettext are broken. I suppose that's
not your problem.
> But since you're in the UK and probably don't need
> internationalisation you could also disable it with --disable-nls .
Well, actually it's an international laboratory. Less than 1/4 of our
staff are native English speakers. Point taken, though.
Cheers,
David