On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 11:32:41PM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote: > On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 09:47:56PM +0000, "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 09:55:10PM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote: > > >> /usr/local/lib/libgimpui.so: undefined reference to `dcgettext__' > > >Can a makefile guru tell me wether this is a bug with i18n on the target > > >system, or ist libgimpui just not linked against -lintl (as it should)? > > > > To fill you inn, Marc, I used --with-included-gettext. Doesn't that mean > > the gettext on the local system _shouldn't_ be used? (I use glibc 2.1.2, > > in case you need it.) > > The reason I wondered about this part of the problem is that libgimpui should > ot have unsatisfied external references. > > It is a common bug (gtk-enginges for example suffered from this) to NOT link > shared libraries against any other libraries, i.e. gtk-enginges was not > linked against gtk+, relying on the "fact" that the main application would > eventually link against it. > > Maybe this is similar for libgimpui (maybe not ;) libintl is only distributed as a static library. You can't portably link static libraries into shared libraries. -Yosh
