Re: glib headaches - configure not propertly detecting gnu gettext

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

"rob" <rob_mail fastmail fm> writes:

> I'm not an autoconf wizard so this is really irritating the hell out of me.
> I've got the following packages installed at a base of /usr/local.
> 
> % xgettext -V
> xgettext (GNU gettext) 0.11.1
> % gettext -V
> gettext (GNU gettext) 0.11.1
> 
> However when I try to configure glib it complains that I don't have gnu
> gettext and that libintl.h can't be found on my system.  Just for the record
> libintl.h is located at /usr/local/include/libintl.h on my system.  I've
> tried a number of things to solve this but alas I've failed.  Any help would
> be appreciated.
> 
> The following is the configure output that I receive
> 
> checking for libintl.h usability... no
> checking for libintl.h presence... no
> checking for libintl.h... no

did you set CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include and LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib
before running configure? It won't look into /usr/local if you didn't.


Salut, Sven