Re: [bug report] sharutils-4.1.1 only builds on linux and solaris

[Bruno Haible]

Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > I notice that the latest sharutils relies on iconv.m4 and friends from
> > gnulib to provide --with-libiconv-prefix and --with-libintl-prefix.
> > But, these macros are assuming that you will link using libtool,.....

No, they don't. They define a variable for use with libtool, and another
variable for use without libtool. See
<http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/gettext/AM_005fICONV.html>
<http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/gettext/AM_005fGNU_005fGETTEXT.html>

How to reproduce a problem: On Cygwin
  1. Install gettext with --prefix=/usr/local/cygwin
  2. Configure sharutils with
     ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/cygwin \
                 CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/cygwin/include -Wall" \
                 LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/cygwin/lib"
  3. make
     ...
     gcc  -g -O2  -L/usr/local/cygwin/lib -o shar.exe shar.o encode.o   
../lib/libgnu.a -L/usr/local/cygwin/lib -lintl -liconv -R/usr/local/cygwin/lib 
../lib/libgnu.a 
     gcc: unrecognized option `-R/usr/local/cygwin/lib'

The bug is that while sharutils does not use libtool, in src/Makefile.am
it uses $(LTLIBINTL) when it should use $(LIBINTL).

Bruno
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