[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Can't compile under FreeBSD (PR#255)

[David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jan Riedinger <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm not able to compile freeciv-cvs-Feb-05 under FreeBSD RELEASE 3.3
> because of problems with the gettext function.

Hmm, ok.  See also PR#190 in the bug tracking system, and 
probably also PR#247.  (And I think also some extra messages
in the list archives for those threads, which were not CC-ed
to the bug tracking system :-(

(That is, see:
http://www.freeciv.org/cgi-bin/bugs?findid=190
http://www.freeciv.org/cgi-bin/bugs?findid=247
and also
http://arch.freeciv.org/freeciv-dev-200001/msg00087.html
)

Workarounds are to use "./configure --disable-nls", or maybe
"./configure --with-included-gettext".

> As attachment you can find the output of gmake and the config.* files.

Thanks for the detailed info.

As in PR#190, I think the problem is that your compile line
should have -lintl, but doesnt:

# gcc  -g -O2 -Wall  -o civserver  autoattack.o barbarian.o cityhand.o \
#   citytools.o cityturn.o civserver.o console.o diplhand.o gamehand.o \
#   gamelog.o gotohand.o handchat.o mapgen.o maphand.o meta.o plrhand.o \
#   ruleset.o sernet.o settlers.o spacerace.o stdinhand.o unitfunc.o \
#   unithand.o unittools.o ../common/libcivcommon.a ../ai/libcivai.a \
#   ../common/libcivcommon.a ../ai/libcivai.a  

But I don't understand why the gettext stuff does not do this 
for you.  According to config.log, it _does_ actually check for 
-lintl, and does find it, but looking at the details of
configure (and AM_GNU_GETTEXT) when it does find it it doesn't 
set LIBS to include it there.  (And doesn't set it anywhere
useful that I can see, except setting a variable 
gt_cv_func_gettext_libintl to "yes".)

Possibly we could check for it ourselves by adding an
explicit AC_CHECK_LIB(intl,main) (as in patch in PR#190),
but that may be bad because elsewhere the gettext stuff 
includes lines like:
   LIBS=`echo $LIBS | sed -e 's/-lintl//'`
(Ie, for using included gettext??)

Confused,
-- David