Greetings Gimp developers, I just finished building & instlling gimp-1.1.24 on 4 platforms for our users here. I had some difficulties related to the gettext package. The 4 platforms are: alphaev56-dec-osf4.0e i686-pc-linux-gnu mips-sgi-irix6.5 sparc-sun-solaris2.7 We have a custom "harness" for multi-platform builds, so it's very convenient for us if all platforms build the same way, without having to make platform-specific tweaks. This generally works well with autoconf-based packages. Linux & Solaris appeared to build fine, at least initially, but OSF and IRIX failed, because gettext utilities were missing (possibly msgfmt, I don't recall now). It didn't occur to me that gimp should use it's own gettext distribution if the system didn't provide one, so my approach was to install gettext-0.10.35 on all platforms. This didn't help. Although configure found the utilities and (most of) the calls with -lintl, the -lintl flag did not get passed to the INTLLIBS macro in the Makefiles. When gimp is linked, the gettext calls are not resolved. Both linux (ours has glibc-2) and Solaris have these calls in the system libraries, so this was not a problem for them. Here is the relevant bit from configure on IRIX (OSF is similar): > checking whether NLS is requested... yes > checking whether included gettext is requested... no > checking for libintl.h... yes > checking for gettext in libc... no > checking for bindtextdomain in -lintl... yes > checking for gettext in libintl... checking for gettext in -lintl... yes > yes > checking for msgfmt... /sw/common/arch/mips-irix/bin/msgfmt > checking for dcgettext... no > checking for gmsgfmt... /sw/common/arch/mips-irix/bin/msgfmt > checking for xgettext... /sw/common/arch/mips-irix/bin/xgettext > checking for catalogs to be installed... ca cs da de en_GB es fi fr hu it ja ko nl no pl ru sk sv uk I find it odd that configure checked for dcgettext without setting -lintl. Is that expected? Anyway, config.status shows that INTLLIBS is not set: s%@INTLDEPS@%%g s%@INTLLIBS@%%g s%@INTLOBJS@%%g My workaround was to hardcode the macro substitutions in the configure script: --- configure.orig Thu Jun 22 21:49:05 2000 +++ configure Fri Aug 18 20:21:05 2000 @@ -8146,7 +8146,7 @@ s%@GMOFILES@%$GMOFILES%g s%@INSTOBJEXT@%$INSTOBJEXT%g s%@INTLDEPS@%$INTLDEPS%g -s%@INTLLIBS@%$INTLLIBS%g +s%@INTLLIBS@%-lintl%g s%@INTLOBJS@%$INTLOBJS%g s%@POFILES@%$POFILES%g s%@POSUB@%$POSUB%g In my case, this forces -lintl for Linux and Solaris too, but that didn't seem to cause any harm. (At least not yet...) It was sufficient to get gimp built on all 4 platforms. It seems to me that configure should have used it's own gettext on those platforms that didn't already have it, without me having to specify --with-included-gettext. If I had known to try that, instead of installing gettext-0.10.35 on those platforms myself, would it have worked? (OK, I suppose I could try to test that myself...) Note: I specified "--disable-perl" to avoid other problems, but I'll come back and look at that another time. I did check the gimp-developer archives, and other problems reported with gettext seemed to be associated with certain perl plugins. (I just subscribed myself, and it's easy to miss things in archives, so apologies if I'm describing a known problem.) I would be pleased if gimp built cleanly on all 4 of our platforms. If someone thinks they can fix it, I'll attempt to build out of CVS in order to test their changes. BTW, the Gimp appears to be quite a remarkable product. Keep up the good work. Kind regards, David ------------------------------------------------------------------- David Starks-Browning | starksb@xxxxxxxxx EMBL Outstation -- | The European Bioinformatics Institute | Wellcome Trust Genome Campus | tel: +44 (1223) 494 616 Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK | fax: +44 (1223) 494 468 -------------------------------------------------------------------
