Re: Multiple definitions of ___printf__

[John Darrington]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 09:36:48PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:

     We used to call AM_GNU_GETTEXT, but commit e59bf0b7b7 "Rewrite
     automake rules for internationalisation files." back in August
     2009 deleted it.
     
     I suspect that we should re-add
             AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], [need-ngettext])
             AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.17])
     back to configure.ac, and then append
             if test -n "$LIBINTL"; then
                 AC_DEFINE([DEPENDS_ON_LIBINTL], [1],
                           [Define to 1 if libintl is built as a
                            separate library rather than integrated
                            into libc])
             fi
     based on Bruno's advice.
     
     What do you think?

Removing AM_GNU_GETTEXT* was a concious decision.  I decided that it was
hindering more than helping.  The log message for that commit elaborates on 
this.
If we decide to use AM_GNU_GETTEXT again, we should make sure that these 
problems
don't reappear.  Particularly, since we now have a number of active translators.

I don't think it will be very difficult to write an autoconf test to see if libc
contains libintl or not.

J'


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