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Re: bash 5.0 ships with very old autoconf macros
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: bash 5.0 ships with very old autoconf macros |
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Thu, 14 Feb 2019 10:41:37 -0500 |
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On 2/12/19 4:08 PM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> The bash 5.0 release still ships with very old autoconf macros to
> detect gettext. In aclocal.m4, the copy of gettext.m4 and the
> supporting lib-link.m4 are from gettext-0.12 dating from 2003.
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> In particular, the included version of AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS_BODY cannot
> detect shared libraries on OpenBSD. (It checks for *.so; OpenBSD
> only has fully numbered libraries: *.so.0.0, etc.)
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> These macros should be updated to newer versions from a recent
> release of gettext.
I took a look at doing this. After adding almost 40 files to the
distribution, I satisfied all the m4 dependencies, and it seems to
build successfully.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/