Re: Localization doesn't work

[Tomas Ogren <stric ing umu se>]

On 19 April, 1999 - Drazen Kacar sent me these 0,9K bytes:

> Tomas Ogren wrote:
> 
> > It's a tricky one.. On solaris I have so far run configure, edited
> > config.cache to tell it that gettext was not found in libc, but to link
> > with libintl instead... It's a gross hack, I know.. but what can we do?
> 
> Check for libintl.a in the logical places, such as $prefix/lib and
> whatever $LDFLAGS specify. Then use some check to verify that it really
> is GNU libintl.a.
> 
> Then add it to the list of libraries when linking. You don't want to use
> GNU libintl.so, because that would probably make things even worse.
> 
> If it wasn't GNU libintl.a, don't do a thing.

The problem is, configure will find out that I have gettext() in my
libc, no need to link in more stuff... But then I have the GNU msgfmt
etc in the path, and they don't have the same format..

/Tomas
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