Re: build problem on old Linux libc5

[Bruno Haible]

Alain Guibert wrote:

> Now tried a serious app: linux_logo 4.07 failed:
> | /tmp/linux_logo-4.07>$ make
> | [...]
> | gcc -O2 -Wall -I./libsysinfo-0.0.7 -o linux_logo linux_logo.o
> | vmw_string.o ./libsysinfo-0.0.7/libsysinfo.a -L./libsysinfo-0.0.7
> | linux_logo.o: In function `ordinal':
> | linux_logo.o(.text+0xf8): undefined reference to `libintl_gettext'

The link command line doesn't contain -lintl, which indicates that the
package's Makefile probably doesn't use @LIBINTL@ in $(LIBS).

> Another problem with Mutt 1.4 with many patches:
> | /tmp/mutt-1.4>$ make
> | cd . && aclocal -I m4
> | aclocal: /usr/local/share/aclocal/lib-prefix.m4: 16: duplicated macro
> | `AC_LIB_ARG_WITH' make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1

See http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2003-04/msg00068.html

Bruno