Re: gettext-1.15 fails to compiled on HP-UX 11.23 ia64

[Bruno Haible]

Bob Proulx wrote:
> Compiling gettext-1.15 fails on HP-UX 11.23 ia64.  Although it works
> on HP-UX 11.23 hppa.  Both are using the native compiler.
> 
> Here is the bottom part of the compile showing the build failure.
> 
>   Making all in libuniname
>   make[3]: Entering directory 
> `/usr/local/src/gettext-0.15/gettext-tools/libuniname'
>   cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..  -I.. -I../lib -I../lib   -g -c uniname.c
>   rm -f libuniname.a
>   ar cru libuniname.a uniname.o 
>   ranlib libuniname.a
>   cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..  -I.. -I../lib -I../lib   -g -c test-names.c
>   /usr/bin/posix/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link cc  -g   -o test-names  
> test-names.o libuniname.a ../lib/libgettextlib.la  
>   mkdir .libs
>   chmod 777 .libs
>   cc -g -o .libs/test-names test-names.o  libuniname.a 
> ../lib/.libs/libgettextlib.so 
> /usr/local/src/gettext-0.15/gettext-tools/intl/.libs/libintl.so -lc -Wl,+b 
> -Wl,/usr/local/lib
>   ld: Can't find dependent library "libintl.so.8"
>   Fatal error.
>   make[3]: *** [test-names] Error 1

I agree with Ralf that it looks like a libtool porting problem.

As a workaround, you can still
  1) do a "make install" in the gettext-runtime subdirectory,
  2) configure, build and install the gettext-tools subdirectory with
     "configure --disable-shared", "make", "make install".

Bruno