Re: Problem configuring glib-1.3.9...

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Eric Lemings <eric b lemings lmco com> writes:

> Here's how I ran configure.
> 
> [glib-1.3.9]$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-maintainer-mode
> --enable-static --enable-shared --enable-debug=yes --enable-threads
> --disable-nls
> 
> Here's what I got.
> 
> ...[snip]...
> checking whether NLS is requested... no
> configure: error:
> *** You must have either have gettext support in your C library, or use
> the
> *** GNU gettext library.
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html
> 
> I don't know what that means but that's the first time I've seen
> anything like it and I've configured hundreds of packages using
> --disable-nls.

This is intentional. We want gettext to always be there so:

 - Downstream packages don't have to do extra checks.
 
 - So people can use "en" translations and a key that isn't
   correct for display.

Etc. Sorry about this,
                                        Owen