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Fw: gettext 0.10.40 build for LynxOS 0.10.40
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Bruno Haible |
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Fw: gettext 0.10.40 build for LynxOS 0.10.40 |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:06:40 +0100 (CET) |
Since gettext-0.10.40 uses plain libtool 1.4, this report (posted to
bug-gnu-utils) appears a genuine libtool bug: on platforms where
shared libraries are not supported, the configure script doesn't find
out about it by itself; it requires the user to pass --disable-shared.
Alan Johnson wrote on bug-gnu-utils:
>
> I have just build and installed gettext version 0.10.40 on
> LynxOS 3.0.1. This is not listed as one of the known supported platforms.
> The README requested that feedback and bug reports should be sent to
> this Email address.
>
> I had problem with configure:
>
> LynxOS does not supported shared libraries (or at least not a
> useful form of shared library) but configure does not figure
> this out. Actually configure seems to assume that if the system
> uses gcc it will support shared libraries which does not seem
> a good assumption.
>
> gettext can be build either by setting the command line
> switch --disable-shared or by editting the configure script
> to handle lynx better. I have made some changes to configure
> which work for me. Would you like these changes to configure?
> I can send a patch or whatever if you would like them.
>
> When changing configure I discoverd it is important to set both
> variables 'enable_shared' and 'lt_cv_prog_cc_can_build_shared'
> to be 'no'. When configure sets 'lt_cv_prog_cc_can_build_shared'
> to 'no' enable_shared is left as 'yes', on LynxOS at least
> this does not work.It dos not seem sensible to me but configure
> has to support a lot of system types I know nothing about.
>
> LynuxWorks (the vendors of LynxOS) claim LynxOS 4.0 will have ELF
> and shared library support, in fact Linux binary compatibility,
> when/if this is released special LynxOS support will be irrelevant.
>
>
> Thanks - AJ
>
>
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