bug: compiling gettext on dec alpha: workaround suggested

[Bruno Haible]

Paul E. Johnson wrote:

> A build of gettext on our alpha system ends like this:
>
> /bin/ksh ../libtool --mode=link cc -g -L/usr/shlib -lots -o xgettext 
> xgettext.o x-c.o x-po.o x-python.o x-lisp.o x-elisp.o x-librep.o x-java.o 
> x-awk.o x-ycp.o x-tcl.o x-rst.o x-glade.o libgettextsrc.la 
> ../libuniname/libuniname.a
> cc -g -o .libs/xgettext xgettext.o x-c.o x-po.o x-python.o x-lisp.o x-elisp.o 
> x-librep.o x-java.o x-awk.o x-ycp.o x-tcl.o x-rst.o x-glade.o -L/usr/shlib 
> ./.libs/libgettextsrc.so 
> /homea/pauljohn/src/gettext-0.11.5/lib/.libs/libgettextlib.so -liconv -liconv 
> -liconv /homea/pauljohn/src/gettext-0.11.5/intl/.libs/libintl.so -lots 
> -liconv -liconv -liconv -lc ../libuniname/libuniname.a -rpath 
> /homea/pauljohn/packages//lib:/usr/shlib
> ld:
> Unresolved:
> _OtsDivide64
> *** Exit 1

Thanks for reporting this. It will be fixed in gettext 0.12.

> I had to hack a long time until could find a way to make it go away,
> it seemed like no matter which Makefile I hacked it out from, it
> would pop up anyway.

Me too... In the end it turned out that on OSF/1 4.0, one must not use
"-lc" before objects that use integer division, and for gettext the
workaround is to mention libuniname,la before libgettextsrc.la, not
after it.

Bruno