Re: gettext on centos6

[Bruno Haible]

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Angel Shtilianov wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I am trying to build gettext on centos 6.
> Have you got experience with it ?
> More than a week no move past autogen.sh.
> Only ver 0.20.2 passes autogen.
> In order to build it it requires bison. In order to build bison it
> requires gettext at least v0.19.
> v0.19 can't pass autogen too:

The easiest way to build any GNU package is to
  1. pick the newest tarball,
  2. follow the instructions in the INSTALL file.

The INSTALL file does not tell you to run autogen.sh; autogen.sh is
documented in the HACKING file.

Bruno