Re: undefined reference to ngettext

[Felix Natter]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Felix Natter writes:
> 
> > but although my glibc 2.1.x doesn't support ngettext, it does not
> > link with libintl:
> > 
> > /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link g++     -o cogarithmetic  cogarithmetic.o  
> > -lpthread -lmenu -lcurses 
> > g++ -o cogarithmetic cogarithmetic.o  -lpthread -lmenu -lcurses
> > cogarithmetic.o: In function `write_ex_stats(int, int, int)':
> > cogarithmetic.o(.text+0xc3): undefined reference to `ngettext'
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > ...
> > the whole tarball is here:
> > http://home.t-online.de/~fam.natter/cog-training.tar.gz
> > ...
> > checking for GNU gettext in libc... no
> > checking for GNU gettext in libintl... yes
> > checking how to link with libintl... /usr/local/lib/libintl.so -lc 
> > -Wl,-rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib
> 
> You need to link with libintl if it is outside glibc. Adding
> 
> LDADD = @LTLIBINTL@
> 
> to your Makefile.am accomplishes this. 

thanks a lot, but shouldn't this be documented in gettextize or in the
gettext-documentation or in gettext.m4, where NEEDSYMBOL is documented ?

I also think that gettextize should tell the user to put intl in SUBDIRS
when --intl is specified (it took me some time to figure this out)

thanks,

-- 
Felix Natter