Re: texinfo/gettext errors on Ultrix and AIX

[Bruno Haible]

Karl Berry wrote:
> A user reported (thanks Christian) some gettext-related problems in the
> texinfo 4.6 release, which uses gettext 0.12.1, and I need advice.  His
> message is appended.
>
> 1) (Least important.) texinfo's system.h said:
>   #ifndef HAVE_LC_MESSAGES
>   #define LC_MESSAGES (-1)
>   #endif
> I can easily fix the warning by saying
>   #if !defined (HAVE_LC_MESSAGES) && !defined (LC_MESSAGES)
> but from looking at the documentation, it seems to me that
> HAVE_LC_MESSAGES is supposed to be obsolete.  But lcmessage is still in
> my aclocal.  Any particular recommendation?  Just remove the whole thing?

The gettext doc says:

  On all POSIX conformant systems the locale categories `LC_CTYPE',
  `LC_MESSAGES', `LC_COLLATE', `LC_MONETARY', `LC_NUMERIC', and `LC_TIME'
  are available.  On some systems which are only ISO C compliant,
  `LC_MESSAGES' is missing, but a substitute for it is defined in GNU
  gettext's `<libintl.h>'.

This means that you don't need to define a substitute for LC_MESSAGES
any more. Just include <locale.h> and <libintl.h>.

The stuff in aclocal.m4 is still needed by AM_GNU_GETTEXT, of course.

> 2) as for conflicting setlocale declarations, it seems locale.h is
>    getting included twice, once from libintl.h and once from system.h.
>    It's just a guess, but maybe the const declarations are different.
>    Christian, you can probably work around it by removing one #include
>    or the other.  The real fix will hopefully come when I ansify the
>    texinfo sources.  Gettext folks, if you have any thoughts along these
>    lines ...

Including the same file twice should always be ok. Be careful to include
<config.h> (which is the one which defines 'const') _before_ any system
include files.

> 3) the AIX failure to find libintl_gettext is the one that really
>    puzzles me.  Although I see assorted references to that symbol in
>    intl/, I don't see any definitions.  Help?

What does "nm libintl.a" give? You could try to add -D_INTL_REDIRECT_MACROS
to the CFLAGS and see whether this helps?

Bruno