Re: GNU Diffutils 2.8 is available

[Albert Chin]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 02:57:18PM -0600, Albert Chin wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 12:03:00PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > > From: Albert Chin <address@hidden>
> > > Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:27:59 -0600
> > > 
> > > Any reason the intl/ directory wasn't included as part of the tarball?
> > 
> > My impression in fielding bug reports from users was that intl/ was
> > more trouble than it was worth.
> > 
> > People who want localized messages tend to have their own
> > properly-built intl library, which GNU Diffutils 2.8 uses by default.
> > 
> > People who don't want localized messages, or who don't particularly
> > care one way or the other, tend to have problems building intl/.
> > These problems discouraged some users from building GNU Diffutils test
> > versions 2.7.3 through 2.7.7, which had intl/.
> > 
> > Omitting intl/ is a new feature of gettext, introduced in gettext
> > 0.11.  I've had good experience with it so far, and am inclined to use
> > this feature in the other packages I help maintain.
> 
> Has the new method been tested on non-Linux/Solaris systems?
> 
> HP-UX 11.00, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, AIX 4.3.2 and --with-libintl-prefix:
>   checking for GNU gettext in libc... no
>   checking for iconv... yes
>   checking for GNU gettext in libintl... no
> 
> -R is being used on the link line which doesn't work on any of the
> above platforms. I'll try to find out what is going on.

Seems like m4/lib-link.m4 was adding this during the build of gettext
0.11.1. Now I'm trying to track down an unresolved reference to
_nl_domain_bindings__ causing the failure above:
  configure:5818: cc -o conftest +O2 -Ae -z +ESlit +Onofltacc
  +DAportable +Oentrysched +Odataprefetch +Onolimit
  -I/opt/TWWfsw/libiconv17/include
  -I/opt/TWWfsw/gettext011/include  conftest.c
  /opt/TWWfsw/gettext011/lib/libintl.sl -L/opt/TWWfsw/libiconv17/lib
  /opt/TWWfsw/libiconv17/lib/libiconv.sl -lc >&5
  /usr/ccs/bin/ld: Unsatisfied symbols:
     _nl_domain_bindings (data)
  configure:5821: $? = 1

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albert chin (address@hidden)