Re: Compiling mc: libgnomeui.so: undefined reference to `dgettext'

[John R Sheets <dusk smsi-roman com>]

Well, for the short term, I removed gemvt from the makefile.  However, I
would still like to know what's going on.  I checked my libgnomeui.so with
nm, and it had dgettext.  Also, gcc had -lintl in its parameter list.

Is this error caused by the implementation not existing in the library, or
the gemvt code calling the library or function improperly, i.e. which side
of the fence is to blame?

Thanks!
John

Tom Tromey wrote:

> John> I got this error too, when compiling gnome-core/gemvt.  I
> John> believe my version of gnome-core dates back to 5/8/98.  What
> John> does dgettext do, anyway?
>
> You get this error because gemvt has its own configure script, but
> doesn't do the right thing wrt the intl libraries.
>
> I personally think that since gemvt isn't being maintained, and since
> gnome-terminal exists and is actively maintained, that we should just
> delete gemvt.
>
> dgettext is a function that looks up a string in a translation
> database.  It differs from the gettext function in that it lets the
> caller explicitly specify the translation domain, whereas gettext uses
> the default domain (as set by the textdomain function).
>
> Tom