Re: complain.c:(.text+0x6df): undefined reference to `ostream_printf'

[Lars Wendler]

Hi,

On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 16:29:56 +0200 Akim Demaille wrote:

>Hi Ken,
>
>> Le 24 juil. 2020 à 19:18, Ken Moffat via Bug reports for Bison, the
>> GNU parser generator <bug-bison@gnu.org> a écrit :
>> 
>>> But Bison should use a stricter Autoconf check to rule out versions
>>> of libtextstyle that don't support it.  I'll do that eventually.
>>> 
>>> Meanwhile, disable text styling with configure
>>> --without-libtextstyle-prefix.
>> 
>> Given that libtextstyle is part of gettext, you seem to be requiring
>> people to use an unreleased version to build bison ?
>
>No.  libtextstyle is *optional*, and the mechanisms to ensure
>portability missed the fact that not all versions of libtextstyle are
>equal.  In the present case, it should just have discarded that
>version and fallback to the case without libtextstyle.  It did not
>happen, and it will happen in Bison 3.7.1.
>
>Lemme be super clear —it appears I was not clear enough—.  What you,
>Arnold and Lars experienced are bugs, no question about that.  And I
>did not see it coming, I'm sorry about that.
>
>Cheers!

today I saw a new gettext-0.21 release which seems to contain a recent
enough libtextstyle. So for me the issue is now solved.

Cheers
-- 
Lars Wendler
Gentoo package maintainer
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