Thanks, and I think I have done that (it needs gettext and iconv, as I recall, which are also installed). And I am using a slightly strange environment (modules.sf.org) but I will look to see if the right libraries are being "chained". H -- > In the specific case listed below it appears that "libintl.a" is not > being found. Either it does not exist or it is not on your linker's > search path. You see this type of problem many times because one > programwilldeped on another. For example you would expect an > imageprocess program to require some JPG library. Tracking these > down takes some work. Start with any docs that come with the program > you are building and thn try www.google.com (BTW google finds > lots of hits on "libintl.a" some suggest that libintl.a is > part of the GNU "gettext" package. SO you might want to install > gettext. Sometimes you may have to go down three of four levels > as "gettext" may depend on yet something else (like a "curses > library?") that you may or may not have. > > > Harlan Stenn wrote: > > If there is a better place to discuss this issue please tell me. > > > > I am tyring to build a number of GNU packages on a solaris9 machine. > > > > I am frequently seeing failures like this one (from gcc-3.3.2): > > > > gcc -g -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes > > -Wmissing-prototypes -Wtraditional -pedantic -Wno-long-long > -DHAVE_CONFIG_H > > -o cc1 c-parse.o c-lang.o c-pretty-print.o attribs.o c-errors.o > c-lex.o c-pragma.o > > c-decl.o c-typeck.o c-convert.o c-aux-info.o c-common.o c-opts.o > c-format.o > > c-semantics.o c-objc-common.o c-dump.o libcpp.a main.o libbackend.a . > > /intl/libintl.a ../libiberty/libiberty.a > > Undefined first referenced > > symbol in file > > libintl_bindtextdomain libbackend.a(intl.o) > > libintl_gettext c-parse.o > > libintl_textdomain libbackend.a(intl.o) > > ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to cc1 > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > *** Error code 1 > > > > I am seeing similar failuses in other packages. > > > > Any idea what the root cause might be? > > > > The mailing list archives have not been helpful to me. > > > > Who can I lobby to get twiki.gnu.org up and running? > > > > H > > > > > >