Re: Can't build gettext 0.17 on Debian stable

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Santiago,

* Santiago Vila wrote on Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 12:57:27PM CET:
> Hello. While trying to build gettext 0.17 on a Debian stable system
> (4.0 aka etch) I get this:
> 
> [...]
> /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=compile gcc -c -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" 
> -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/usr/share/locale\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/lib\" 
> -DBUILDING_LIBINTL -DBUILDING_DLL -DIN_LIBINTL -DENABLE_RELOCATABLE=1 
> -DIN_LIBRARY -DINSTALLDIR=\"/usr/lib\" -DNO_XMALLOC 
> -Dset_relocation_prefix=libintl_set_relocation_prefix 
> -Drelocate=libintl_relocate -DDEPENDS_ON_LIBICONV=1 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. 
> -I../../gettext-runtime/intl -I..  -g -Wall -D_REENTRANT -O2  
> ../../gettext-runtime/intl/bindtextdom.c
> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
> make[4]: *** [bindtextdom.lo] Error 1
> make[4]: se sale del directorio `/tmp/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools/intl'

First a workaround: to the setting of LIBTOOL add --tag=CC in
$source_tree/gettext_tools/intl/Makefile.in:
  LIBTOOL = @LIBTOOL@ --tag=CC

Now, this typically is not necessary if the compiler is the same as the
configured compiler, as then libtool can detect it.  How did you invoke
configure?

Cheers,
Ralf