Re: Gettext's libgettextpo fails linking due to a missing dependency on libtextstyle

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

L. E. Segovia wrote on 2021-02-21:
> I'm writing to ask if you have experienced the following issue with 
> gettext on macOS.
> 
> I've been working on updating the libraries that we ship with Krita (MR 
> here: https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/718), and 
> among them I tried to upgrade gettext to 0.21.
> 
> Apart from the linker warnings that have been reported previously here:
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2020-11/msg00025.html
> 
> Gettext cannot be compiled under our macOS toolchain (with our own built 
> libiconv) because of an error when linking libgettextpo:
> 
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-recursive
> Making all in gnulib-local
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> Making all in gettext-runtime
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-recursive
> Making all in doc
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> Making all in intl
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-am
> make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
> Making all in intl-java
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> Making all in intl-csharp
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> Making all in gnulib-lib
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-recursive
> make[6]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
> Making all in libasprintf
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-am
> Making all in src
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> Making all in po
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> Making all in man
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> Making all in m4
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> Making all in tests
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> Making all in libtextstyle
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-recursive
> Making all in lib
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-am
> make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
> Making all in tests
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-recursive
> Making all in .
> make[6]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
> Making all in adhoc-tests
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> Making all in doc
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> Making all in gettext-tools
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-recursive
> Making all in intl
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-am
> make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
> Making all in gnulib-lib
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-am
> make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
> Making all in libgrep
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-am
> make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
> Making all in src
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-am
> make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
> Making all in libgettextpo
> /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make  all-am
> /bin/sh ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc  -g -O2 -version-info 
> 5:7:5 -rpath /Volumes/Kiki/krita-mac/i/lib -no-undefined     -o 
> libgettextpo.la -rpath /Volumes/Kiki/krita-mac/i/lib gettext-po.lo 
> ../src/str-list.lo ../src/dir-list.lo ../src/message.lo 
> ../src/msgl-ascii.lo ../src/po-error.lo ../src/po-xerror.lo 
> ../src/write-catalog.lo ../src/write-po.lo ../src/open-catalog.lo 
> ../src/po-charset.lo ../src/po-lex.lo ../src/po-gram-gen.lo 
> ../src/read-po.lo ../src/read-catalog-abstract.lo ../src/read-catalog.lo 
> ../src/plural-table.lo ../src/format-c.lo ../src/format-python.lo 
> ../src/format-python-brace.lo ../src/format-java.lo 
> ../src/format-java-printf.lo ../src/format-csharp.lo 
> ../src/format-javascript.lo ../src/format-scheme.lo 
> ../src/format-lisp.lo ../src/format-elisp.lo ../src/format-librep.lo 
> ../src/format-ruby.lo ../src/format-sh.lo ../src/format-awk.lo 
> ../src/format-lua.lo ../src/format-pascal.lo ../src/format-smalltalk.lo 
> ../src/format-qt.lo ../src/format-qt-plural.lo ../src/format-kde.lo 
> ../src/format-kde-kuit.lo ../src/format-boost.lo ../src/format-tcl.lo 
> ../src/format-perl.lo ../src/format-perl-brace.lo ../src/format-php.lo 
> ../src/format-gcc-internal.lo ../src/format-gfc-internal.lo 
> ../src/format.lo ../src/plural-exp.lo ../src/plural-eval.lo 
> ../src/msgl-check.lo ../src/sentence.lo  libgnu.la   ../intl/libintl.la 
> -liconv  -Wl,-framework -Wl,CoreFoundation -liconv -lc
> libtool: link: gcc -dynamiclib  -o .libs/libgettextpo.0.dylib 
> .libs/gettext-po.o ../src/.libs/str-list.o ../src/.libs/dir-list.o 
> ../src/.libs/message.o ../src/.libs/msgl-ascii.o ../src/.libs/po-error.o 
> ../src/.libs/po-xerror.o ../src/.libs/write-catalog.o 
> ../src/.libs/write-po.o ../src/.libs/open-catalog.o 
> ../src/.libs/po-charset.o ../src/.libs/po-lex.o 
> ../src/.libs/po-gram-gen.o ../src/.libs/read-po.o 
> ../src/.libs/read-catalog-abstract.o ../src/.libs/read-catalog.o 
> ../src/.libs/plural-table.o ../src/.libs/format-c.o 
> ../src/.libs/format-python.o ../src/.libs/format-python-brace.o 
> ../src/.libs/format-java.o ../src/.libs/format-java-printf.o 
> ../src/.libs/format-csharp.o ../src/.libs/format-javascript.o 
> ../src/.libs/format-scheme.o ../src/.libs/format-lisp.o 
> ../src/.libs/format-elisp.o ../src/.libs/format-librep.o 
> ../src/.libs/format-ruby.o ../src/.libs/format-sh.o 
> ../src/.libs/format-awk.o ../src/.libs/format-lua.o 
> ../src/.libs/format-pascal.o ../src/.libs/format-smalltalk.o 
> ../src/.libs/format-qt.o ../src/.libs/format-qt-plural.o 
> ../src/.libs/format-kde.o ../src/.libs/format-kde-kuit.o 
> ../src/.libs/format-boost.o ../src/.libs/format-tcl.o 
> ../src/.libs/format-perl.o ../src/.libs/format-perl-brace.o 
> ../src/.libs/format-php.o ../src/.libs/format-gcc-internal.o 
> ../src/.libs/format-gfc-internal.o ../src/.libs/format.o 
> ../src/.libs/plural-exp.o ../src/.libs/plural-eval.o 
> ../src/.libs/msgl-check.o ../src/.libs/sentence.o 
> -Wl,-force_load,./.libs/libgnu.a 
> /Volumes/Kiki/krita-mac/depbuild/ext_gettext/ext_gettext-prefix/src/ext_gettext-build/gettext-tools/intl/.libs/libintl.dylib
>  
> ../intl/.libs/libintl.dylib -liconv -lc  -g -O2 -Wl,-framework 
> -Wl,CoreFoundation   -install_name 
> /Volumes/Kiki/krita-mac/i/lib/libgettextpo.0.dylib 
> -compatibility_version 6 -current_version 6.7 -Wl,-single_module
> Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
>    "_file_ostream_create", referenced from:
>        _msgdomain_list_print in write-catalog.o
>    "_ostream_free", referenced from:
>        _msgdomain_list_print in write-catalog.o
>    "_ostream_write_mem", referenced from:
>        _message_print_comment in write-po.o
>        _wrap in write-po.o
>    "_ostream_write_str", referenced from:
>        _message_print_comment in write-po.o
>        _message_print_comment_dot in write-po.o
>        _message_print_comment_filepos in write-po.o
>        _message_print_comment_flags in write-po.o
>        _msgdomain_list_print_po in write-po.o
>        _wrap in write-po.o
> ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
> clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see 
> invocation)
> make[5]: *** [libgettextpo.la] Error 1
> make[4]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> All of the symbols referenced above come from libtextstyle, which the 
> library for some reason doesn't link against.

I believe this problem has already been fixed before version 0.20, through
the commit

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=commitdiff;h=b85e17cd47dc1aeda8e3cd3616a94fdba951be11

Thanks for the report.

Bruno