Re: Problem with glib-gettext.m4

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 07:36, James Henstridge wrote:
> There is a bug in the glib-gettext.m4 macro that has been causing 
> problems building on some systems including RH9.  The problem is 
> detailed in the last comment on this bug:
>     http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119171
> 
> The problem occurs if you are using glibc, but do not have a libintl.so 
> (or .a) on your system.
> 
> Since the contents of M4 macros get included in the body of configure 
> scripts, it will be necessary to release new tarballs of affected 
> packages after the fix is applied.  It would be good to get some testing 
> of these tarballs before Gnome 2.4 is released too.
> 
> Note that the problem change was made on 7th August, so any tarballs 
> made before then are not affected.

Also, note that any tarballs made against released tarballs of
GLib are fine, though I suspect most developers do use glib-2-2
from CVS.

Fixed now in CVS, thanks.

					Owen

Tue Aug 19 09:42:06 2003  Owen Taylor  <otaylor redhat com>
 
        * m4macros/glib-gettext.m4: Add $INTLLIBS to $LIBS
        temporarily, not -lintl. (Problem with fix for
        #119171, pointed out by James Henstridge)