-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 7/4/2007 8:16 PM: >> I don't understand it: If test-canonicalize-lgpl depends - directly or >> indirectly on the module 'gettext-h', then @LIBINTL@ will expand to something >> (possibly empty) in the Makefile, then how can the error in Simon's logs >> occur? And if it doesn't, then where did the error that you saw in findutils >> on cygwin come from? ??? > > Hmm, I'm trying to get to the bottom of this. Thanks for the heads up. I > remember seeing the error only when compiling findutils, which uses the > canonicalize; maybe the error stemmed from a combination of modules in use > at the same time, in which it is not canonicalize that directly depends on > LIBINTL, but one of the other modules which it was interacting with. I'll > see if I can reproduce the actual failure, by temporarily reverting that > patch.
Here's the actual failure with findutils: gcc -g2 -Wall -o test-canonicalize-lgpl.exe test-canonicalize-lgpl.o ../gnulib/lib/libgnulib.a ../gnulib/lib/libgnulib.a(xalloc-die.o): In function `xalloc_die': /home/eblake/findutils/gnulib/lib/xalloc-die.c:35: undefined reference to `_libintl_gettext' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status So it is the mix with xalloc-die that changes the behavior of test-canonicalize-lgpl to pull in a gettext function. But what is stranger is that findutils only wants to use 'canonicalize', not 'canonicalize-lgpl'. Somehow, the --with-tests option of gnulib-tool is pulling in canonicalize-lgpl-tests in spite of the fact that findutils intends to use the gpl version (in particular, with xalloc, which needs @LIBINTL@). And for now, there is no canonicalize-tests module, even though it could reasonably be the same as canonicalize-lgpl-tests. I'm still not sure how best to fix this. Maybe instead of directly using @LIBINTL@ in test_canonicalize_lgpl_LDADD, we instead use another symbol which expands to empty by default, but which xalloc can define to expand to @[EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGjOVv84KuGfSFAYARAqbxAKCQYaMGM3E7bh83/pk9KnuK4leeqwCbBOFI Xz2w6awpvBuk3CjO4S03GB8= =mdZP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
