[gettext] Re: gettext documentation

[Bruno Haible]

Damon Chaplin wrote on 1998-08-29:

> When compiling I kept getting:
>
> editor.o(.text+0x3ad): undefined reference to `dcgettext__`
> editor.o(.text+0x3dd): undefined reference to `dcgettext__`
> editor.o: In function `editor_show_grid_settings_dialog`:
> editor.o(.text+0x51d): undefined reference to `dcgettext__`
> editor.o(.text+0x54d): undefined reference to `dcgettext__`
> editor.o(.text+0x66d): undefined reference to `dcgettext__`
> editor.o(.text+0x69d): more undefined references to `dcgettext__` follow
>
> I finally discovered (after several hours) that this was because I still had
> a libintl.h file in intl/ from a previous compilation.

The problem was that the gettext package's main Makefile.am
has a rule

DISTCLEANFILES = intl/libintl.h

but your Makefile.am probably hasn't, thus "make distclean"
doesn't erase the file.

In the new version 0.10.37, the intl/Makefile.in is responsible itself
for removing libintl.h upon "make clean".

Thanks for the report.

Bruno