Bug#155610: gettext fails to build from source (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

FYI:

On a Linux m68k system without the file command installed, a build of gettext
fails to create the shared libraries.

This is because gettext contains a libtool.m4 file saying:

# This must be Linux ELF.
linux-gnu*)
  case $host_cpu in
  alpha* | hppa* | i*86 | powerpc* | sparc* | ia64* )
    lt_cv_deplibs_check_method=pass_all ;;
  *)
    # glibc up to 2.1.1 does not perform some relocations on ARM
    lt_cv_deplibs_check_method='file_magic ELF [[0-9]][[0-9]]*-bit [[LM]]SB 
(shared object|dynamic lib )' ;;
  esac
  lt_cv_file_magic_test_file=`echo /lib/libc.so* /lib/libc-*.so`
  ;;

which is also the source of several problems (see
http://bugs.debian.org/120515).

Debian uses glibc-2.2 already, so I will probably patch libtool.m4 so
that it always uses pass_all under Linux, as it was done in the Debian
libtool package.

Thanks.