Re: Building "trueprint" fails with missing ref to _libintl_gettext

["Matthias Andree" <matthias dot andree at gmx dot de>]

Am 01.06.2009, 22:48 Uhr, schrieb David Karr <dkarr@real.com>:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf
> > Of David Karr
> > Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 1:26 PM
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Building "trueprint" fails with missing ref to _libintl_gettext
> >
> > I'm trying to build the "trueprint" app on Cygwin, and it's failing with
> > the
> > following:
> >
> >     undefined reference to `_libintl_gettext'
> >
> > I had to do this many years ago, and I believe I ran into this then  
> > also,
> > but I don't remember what I had to do to resolve it.
> >
> > When I run "configure" it comes out with a line (among others):
> >
> >     checking for gettext... (cached) no
> >
> > I don't know if I'm simply missing a Cygwin package, or whether I have  
> > to
> > hack the trueprint build to get it to work.  The "gettext" package in
> > Cygwin
> > is installed.
>
> Never mind.  I figured it out.  I just added -lintl to the LIBS variable  
> in the resulting src/Makefile.

You can also do something like

./configure LIBS=-lintl

or

./configure LIBS="-lintl -lfoobar"

If configure was built with a semi-recent autoconf, that will also  
propagate into the Makefile without your needing to tweak the Makefile.

HTH

--
Matthias Andree

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