Re: One failed self test for lang-vala

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 7:17 PM Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:
>
> Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > GetText is a distant prereq. I'm seeing one failure:
> >
> >     FAIL: lang-vala
>
> From your logs, I can see:
>
> 1) You are using the configure option --with-included-gettext on a glibc
>    system. While supported, this is quite unusual; many packages out there
>    have probably not been tested in this configuration.

That sounds wrong. Thanks.

I believe I used --with-included-gettext to avoid a circular
dependency among iConv, GetText and Libunistring.

>    Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
>    /usr/bin/ld: /home/jwalton/tmp/ccDX21eF.o: in function `_vala_main':
>    prog.vala.c:(.text+0x33): undefined reference to `libintl_textdomain'
>    /usr/bin/ld: prog.vala.c:(.text+0x46): undefined reference to 
> `libintl_bindtextdomain'
>    collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>    error: cc exited with status 256
>    FAIL lang-vala (exit status: 1)
>
> This indicates that the 'vala' compiler does not use '-lintl' for linking,
> although it would be needed.
>
> You can report this to the 'vala' developers.

Thanks. Let me get my shit fixed first.

Jeff