Hi, >I have installed gettext-0.10.35 separately in /usr/local/lib, so >it is definitely there and configure finds it. My gimp is not installed When configure finds libintl, it should set INTLLIBS="-lintl", I think. But current gettext.m4 doesn't do that. --- gettext.m4.orig Fri May 1 14:45:20 1998 +++ gettext.m4 Wed Dec 1 00:44:11 1999 @@ -54,8 +54,7 @@ gt_cv_func_gettext_libintl=no)]) fi - if test "$gt_cv_func_gettext_libc" = "yes" \ - || test "$gt_cv_func_gettext_libintl" = "yes"; then + if test "$gt_cv_func_gettext_libc" = "yes"; then AC_DEFINE(HAVE_GETTEXT) AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST(MSGFMT, msgfmt, [test -z "`$ac_dir/$ac_word -h 2>&1 | grep 'dv '`"], no)dnl @@ -72,6 +71,29 @@ DATADIRNAME=lib]) INSTOBJEXT=.mo fi + fi + + if test "$gt_cv_func_gettext_libintl" = "yes"; then + alter_LIBS="$LIBS"; + LIBS="$LIBS -lintl"; + AC_DEFINE(HAVE_GETTEXT) + AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST(MSGFMT, msgfmt, + [test -z "`$ac_dir/$ac_word -h 2>&1 | grep 'dv '`"], no)dnl + if test "$MSGFMT" != "no"; then + AC_CHECK_FUNCS(dcgettext) + AC_PATH_PROG(GMSGFMT, gmsgfmt, $MSGFMT) + AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST(XGETTEXT, xgettext, + [test -z "`$ac_dir/$ac_word -h 2>&1 | grep '(HELP)'`"], :) + AC_TRY_LINK(, [extern int _nl_msg_cat_cntr; + return _nl_msg_cat_cntr], + [CATOBJEXT=.gmo + DATADIRNAME=share], + [CATOBJEXT=.mo + DATADIRNAME=lib]) + INSTOBJEXT=.mo + fi + LIBS="$alter_LIBS"; + INTLLIBS="-lintl"; fi ]) -- SHIRASAKI Yasuhiro : Experimental Particle Physics, JLC Team Graduate School of Science, TOHOKU University 980-8578 Japan.