Re: gettext-tools configure error -

[Chris Turner <c.turner%199technologies.org@localhost>]

Tim Noell wrote:
> Hi pkgsrc-users:
>
> I am trying to upgrade a pkgsrc tree and am running info a configure 
> error in devel/gettext-tools (details below).  I searched the archives 
> and saw some chatter about it, but either the stuff I found doesn't 
> apply, or I don't understand the issue well enough to know that I am 
> staring at the answer ( my apologies if this is the case ... :/ )     
> Same for the few results that Google turned up.

got the same error here using a minimal debian "lenny" (gcc 4.2.3)
setup created using debootstrap

> Rather than fixing this in gettext-tools, I'm thinking libintl.so (from 
> devel/gettext-lib package) got built incorrectly and should list 
> libcharset.so as a NEEDED shared library, so that client apps don't need 
> to know to include -lcharset on their linker lines.   I grepped around 
> in gettext-lib but didn't see any settings for this ...
> How/where would I fix this?  Or is there a better place to fix it?  Or 
> am I all washed up?

hacking in

LIBS+=-lcharset

into converters/libiconv/buildlink3.mk

seemed to fix things here ..

reading up on buildlink to find out how to do this 'properly' ..

posted this in case I don't get around to it quickly..

once I do, will send-pr with the appropriate details & respond to thread.

- Chris