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gettext 0.10.40 builf for LynxOS 0.10.40


From: Alan Johnson
Subject: gettext 0.10.40 builf for LynxOS 0.10.40
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 15:43:47 +0000
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2

I have just build and installed gettext version 0.10.40 on
LynxOS 3.0.1. This is not listed as one of the known supported platforms.
The README requested that feedback and bug reports should be sent to
this Email address.

I had problem with configure:

  LynxOS does not supported shared libraries (or at least not a
  useful form of shared library) but configure does not figure
  this out. Actually configure seems to assume that if the system
  uses gcc it will support shared libraries which does not seem
  a good assumption.

  gettext can be build either by setting the command line
  switch --disable-shared or by editting the configure script
  to handle lynx better. I have made some changes to configure
  which work for me. Would you like these changes to configure?
  I can send a patch or whatever if you would like them.

  When changing configure I discoverd it is important to set both
  variables 'enable_shared' and 'lt_cv_prog_cc_can_build_shared'
  to be 'no'. When configure sets 'lt_cv_prog_cc_can_build_shared'
  to 'no' enable_shared is left as 'yes', on LynxOS at least
  this does not work.It dos not seem sensible to me but configure
  has to support a lot of system types I know nothing about.

  LynuxWorks (the vendors of LynxOS) claim LynxOS 4.0 will have ELF
  and shared library support, in fact Linux binary compatibility,
  when/if this is released special LynxOS support will be irrelevant.


Thanks - AJ




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