[Freeciv-Dev] Re: ngettext test (CVS Snapshots)

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 03:32:45PM +0100, Reinier Post wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 03:05:17PM +0100, Reinier Post wrote:
>  
> > > > We don't check for a ngettext binary. We check for a ngettext
> > > > function.
> > 
> > Sorry.  In that case the error message is utterly confusing;
> > it only says 'ngettext not found'.
> 
> No, it doesn't; it says:
> 
> checking for ngettext in -lc... no
> checking for ngettext in -lintl... no
> configure: error: I haven't found a working ngettext function in your system. 
                                                       ^^^^^^^^
> 
> In the case of my FreeBSD box, it doesn't find it because
> it doesn't look in /usr/local/lib to find libintl.so.
> In the case of www.freeciv.org, it doesn't find it because
> the GNU gettext installation doesn't include a libintl.so.
> 
> So the error message is confusing, but the check is the right one.
> I can't think how to improve it.

IMHO you should change the script to use --with-included-gettext since
it is guarantied that this will always work.

        Raimar

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