gettext Install problem

[Warren L Dodge]

After you have built libintl and installed it, you then compile programs
that use it.

These programs seem to link in the libintl.so.2 version of the library.

The lib directory looks something like this when it is installed.

 charset.alias
 gettext/
 libgettextlib-0.11.5.so
 libgettextlib.la
 libgettextlib.so -> libgettextlib-0.11.5.so
 libgettextsrc-0.11.5.so
 libgettextsrc.la
 libgettextsrc.so -> libgettextsrc-0.11.5.so
 libintl.a
 libintl.la
 libintl.so -> libintl.so.2.2.0
 libintl.so.2 -> libintl.so.2.2.0
 libintl.so.2.2.0

Now assume you have built all the gnu tools using gettext and a patch or new
version of gettext is to be installed.

You build it and it builds fine.

You install it and part way through the install fails. The reason is that the
install deleted libintl.so.2 to reinstall the link. This may carry into the
other links also.

When it deleted the link, all the tools using the library fail to run and
thus the install fails.

Perhaps the install could be made smarter in this area. Is the link there and
is it pointing to the correct version? If so leave it as is.

Or perhaps fall back to generic /bin tools for that step.

There is a similar problem in the libiconv library installation.