On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> The configure script for popt for ORBit has:
> 
> echo "configure:2325: 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; }
> 
> (I have gettext-0.10.35nb1.)
> $ xgettext --version
> Unrecognized option: -

You have another xgettext in your path. This is what you're supposed
to see:

fredb@handy-> xgettext --version
xgettext (GNU gettext) 0.10.35
Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Ulrich Drepper.