Re: gettext 0.17 build failure (expat related, multiple platforms)

[Bruno Haible]

Matthew Woehlke wrote in 
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2009-03/msg00088.html>:
> gcc -g -O2 -o .libs/xgettext [objects] ./.libs/libgettextsrc.so 
> /home/install/gnu/build/arch/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools/gnulib-lib/.libs/libgettextlib.so
>  -L/home/install/gnu/arch/lib -lncurses 
> /home/install/gnu/build/arch/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools/intl/.libs/libintl.so 
> /home/install/gnu/arch/lib/libiconv.so -lc 
> /home/install/gnu/arch/lib/libexpat.so -R/home/install/gnu/arch/lib
> Undefined first referenced
> symbol in file
> XML_GetFeatureList xgettext-x-glade.o
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to .libs/xgettext
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[4]: *** [xgettext] Error 1

Well, XML_GetFeatureList is part of the expat API, whether it be version 1.95.8,
2.0.0, or 2.0.1. The question is therefore: why is this symbol not picked up
by the linker?

1) What is "nm /home/install/gnu/arch/lib/libexpat.so | grep 
XML_GetFeatureList" ?

2) What is "nm /home/install/gnu/arch/lib/libexpat.so | grep ' T '" ?

3) What configure options did you pass when configuring expat?

4) Is there maybe an older version of libexpat in /usr/lib/ ?

Bruno


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