Re: [bug-gettext] gettext and -R

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 2, 2014, at 10:08 PM, Daiki Ueno wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt writes:
> 
>>>> clang: error: unknown argument: '-R/opt/local/lib'
>>> 
>>> Could you provide the full build log?
>> 
>> Sure, here it is:
>> 
>> http://ryandesign.com/tmp/tuxtype-1.8.3.main.log
>> 
>> As far as I can tell, libtool is not being used; the flags are going
>> directly to the compiler.
>> 
>> The source can be downloaded from 
>> git://git.debian.org/git/tux4kids/tuxtype.git
> 
> Looking at the code, I'd say this is a bug in tuxtype.
> 
> In tuxtype/src/Makefile.am:
> 
>  LDADD = @LIBINTL@
>  tuxtype_LDFLAGS = $(LTLIBINTL)
> 
> If tuxtype doesn't use libtool, it should use $(LIBINTL) instead of
> $(LTLIBINTL):
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#src_002fMakefile
> 
> However, $(LIBINTL) is already supplied through LDADD, maybe you could
> simply remove the second line?

Thanks, I really appreciate you explaining it to me. Removing the second line, 
and adding some other needed libraries to the first line, allowed it to build. 
The original developer seems to have disappeared so this release was put 
together by someone new so I'm not surprised some things were missed.