Bug 49329
| Summary: | configure script incorrectly checks for GNU gettext with --disable-nls flag | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Ben Zeckel <bzeckel> |
| Component: | popt | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.2 | ||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-07-18 02:03:44 UTC | Type: | --- |
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This check was added at the request of the GNOME project, as it minimizes a support issue for them. |
Description of Problem: In the libpopt1.6.2 configure script, there is a check for gettext which seems a little broken with --disable-nls gettext isn't needed for building with this option as far as I can tell - using this option and removing the following gettext check results in binaries that appear to work so far. Since I haven't installed a ARM binary version of gettext on my development system and the ARM binaries seem to work fine (pump for example) on my test board, I assume that gettext is neither linked against nor included in the binary. Here is the section in question: if test ! -f ../rpm.c then echo $ac_n "checking for GNU xgettext""... $ac_c" 1>&6 echo "configure:2286: checking for GNU xgettext" >&5 xgettext --version 2>&1 | grep 'GNU gettext' >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "configure: error: *** GNU gettext is required. The latest version *** is always available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/." 1>&2; exit 1; } echo "$ac_t""yes" 1>&6 fi There should probably be a check for a --disable-nls option or something here - I would supply a patch, but I don't know how to use autoconf yet. How reproducable: every time Steps to Reproduce: get 1.6.2 from ftp.rpm.org (or cvs.rpm.org latest version) on a machine without GNU gettext installed, run ./configure with --disable-nls option configure fails. edit out above check and repeat configure command make build works despite lack of GNU gettext Actual Results: --disable-nls without gettext fails during configure script Expected Results: configure script should allow build to continue without gettext if --disable-nls is used Additional Information: build will correctly fail if the check is removed and --disable-nls is not used. The check is only made if ../rpm.c does not exist. Since popt is probably usually build along with rpm, this does not show up most of the time.