[Freeciv-Dev] Re: gettext 0.10.37

[Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 19 May 2001, thue@xxxxxxx wrote:
> I have a patch to use gettext 0.10.37 at
> http://hjem.get2net.dk/thue_janus_kristensen/gettext.diff.bz2
> It seems to work if you have gettext 0.10.37 installed.
> The patch includes enough files that you should be able to do
>   % make distclean && ./configure && make
> 
> Apart from a straightforward gettextize I had to remove the
> @INTLDEPS@ from server/Makefile.am and client/Makefile.am . gettext
> 0.10.35 exported @INTLDEPS@ when you used --with-included-gettext,
> but that seems not to be the case any more.
> 
> There were however a bug in gettext I had to fix to get it working - I had to 
> change the line:
>      [case " "$CONFIG_FILES" " in *" po/Makefile.in "* | *" po/Makefile.in:"*)
> to
>      [case "$CONFIG_FILES" in *po/Makefile.in* | *po/Makefile.in:*)
> in aclocal.m4 . If you run aclocal and have an unchanged gettext 0.10.37 
> installation a bad copy will be inserted into aclocak.m4 again.

Odd.  What does this line do anyway?

> Also, --with-included-gettext fails with this error:
> ---------------------
> make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt/data/freeciv-dev/gettext7/intl'
> gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" 
> -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" 
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I../intl  -g -O2 -Wall  dcigettext.c
> dcigettext.c:142: warning: static declaration for `mempcpy' follows non-static
> dcigettext.c:1199: parse error before `__extension__'
> dcigettext.c:1203: parse error before `{'
> dcigettext.c:142: warning: `mempcpy' declared `static' but never defined
> make[2]: *** [dcigettext.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/data/freeciv-dev/gettext7/intl'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/data/freeciv-dev/gettext7'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> bash-2.05$
> ---------------------
> I looked a bit at it, and it occurs because HAVE_MEMPCPY is not defined, 
> which it apperantly should be. If I kludge that away there seem to be more 
> problems.

Did you try removing config.cache and rerunning ./configure?  Does the
configure script mention 'checking for memcpy' or somesuch anywhere in
its output?

> These problems doesn't seem to be something we should/could fix...?
> 
> It would be interesting to know if people on other systems could
> make --with-included-gettext work.

Did you disable the various odd gettext hacks / workarounds in
configure.in?  E.g. the -w 0 hack (no longer necessary with .37), the
hacks to remove oververbose output, etc. etc.

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