[bug-gettext] [bug #46844] gettext 0.19.7 fails to compile, OS X 10.7 & 10.8

[Dominyk]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?46844>

                 Summary: gettext 0.19.7 fails to compile, OS X 10.7 & 10.8
                 Project: GNU gettext
            Submitted by: domt4
            Submitted on: Thu 07 Jan 2016 15:07:54 GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Hey folks,

Only tested OS X 10.7 and 10.8 but it seems the latest gettext release won't
build on OS X on anything older than 10.9 (Mavericks). Everything newer than
10.8 (Mountain Lion) builds fine.

Tried with the system Clang, LLVM-GCC & tried with a modern GNU GCC-5, which
isn't system provided. The error doesn't seem to be compiler related.

Failure point is:
```
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "_xmlOutputBufferGetContent", referenced from:
      __its_collect_text_content in libgettextsrc_la-its.o
  "_xmlXPathSetContextNode", referenced from:
      __its_get_content in libgettextsrc_la-its.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see
invocation)
```

The problem seems to be with the libxml version on those platforms, which for
Mountain Lion is 2.7.8. OS X Mavericks and upwards use at least 2.9.0, where
there are no such issues. Building against a manual newer libxml also resolves
the issue.

Just reporting in case this wasn't an intended breakage.




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