[Bug-freedink] Re: intltool.m4 and FreeBSD (Was: FreeDink in FreeBSD)

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 08:50:05PM -0800, Stephen Hurd wrote:
> Sylvain Beucler wrote:
>> There's indeed something about it in /usr/share/aclocal/intltool.m4:
>>
>> Apparently it checks for '_nl_msg_cat_cntr' and doesn't find
>> it. However this test isn't relevant here because DFArc uses
>> wxWidget's i18n stack instead of directly using gettext.  It would
>> worth checking if there are similar issues in other packages using
>> wxWidgets.
>>   
>
> Hrm... I wonder then if the intltool stuff is the "wrong" way do do it  
> in configure and if there's some wx thing to use instead.  I have no  
> auto-fu and don't know M4, so I'm going to just ignore this and hope it  
> goes away.  :-)

I did a quick search and I'm not sure that many packages use both
intltool and wxWidgets!

Some packages such as vlc use both the gettext M4 stuff and wxWidgets,
but not intltool (they translate .desktop files manually). Other
packages ship with libintl and maybe use it instead of Free/NetBSD's
gettext.

Anyway, the intltool M4 code essentially looks for _GNU_ gettext, and
if it doesn't find it, it installs in /usr/lib, which apparently isn't
standard for FreeBSD's gettext - so there's a bug in intltool (do you
confirm?).

Would you mind reporting this to
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=intltool
? I used v0.40 to bootstrap './configure'.

-- 
Sylvain