Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #39970] fix gettext error during autoreconf

[Arun Persaud]

On 09/07/2013 12:24 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> Well, my Ubuntu 10.04 still has gettext 0.17, and attemps to install
> Ubuntu 12.04 so far only resulted in crashing of VirtualBox. I am not to
> keen on upgrading anyway; I still regret the day I upgraded from 8.04 to
> 10.04 on my laptop, because half of it doesn't function anymore since I
> did (stuttering sound, and no USB). The higher the version, the more
> crappy these things seem to get.

that's strange... up to now my computers always ran better with a newer
version than with an old one...

> It seems furthermore strange that we would have to REQUIRE 0.18 in the
> configure while in fact XBoard would compile perfectly with 0.17 if you
> have that installed. This cannot be a proper solution. The entire purpose
> of 'configure' is to figure out WHAT you have installed, and use that if
> it can do the job.
> 
> So it seems to me that this is a bug in autoconf or the data we feed it,
> and that requiring a higher version number is just a work-around. I would
> like to see a patch for a proper solution, that can use both gettext 0.17
> and 0.18 depending on which happens to be installed.

not sure, if there is a good way of handling this... unfortunately I
don't have the time to look into it at the moment, but if someone knows
how this could be done, I'm all for it.

Arun