Re: -lintl is not being picked up on solaris 2.8 with binutils 2.14

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Martin,

> But I recently had to make binutils 2.14 and it wouldn't make
> without --with-included-gettext.

Did you try configuring with "--disable-nls" instead ?


> I just made gettext-0.13 and installed it.
> I went back and tried to make binutils

Do you start again from scratch - ie running configure, or did you
just run "make" in the binutils top-level directory ?  Without a
reconfigure it is unlikely that binutils will detect the newly
installed gettext.


> No luck -- after some head scratching and reading libintl.h, I
> noticed that binutils wasn't appending -lintl anywhere...

Probably because when configure ran gettext was not installed, and
when you ran make again it was just using the cached values and not
re-running configure.

> Also, when I type
>       make INTTLIBS=-lintl 
> at the top level, -lintl doesn't get passed down...
>
> Not sure I understand why...

INTLLIBS is not one of those variables that gets passed down
recursively when building binutils.  It is supposed to be set inside
the binutils sub-directory when configure is run there.

Cheers
        Nick