Re: wchar.h vs. gettext-lib on AIX

[Louis Guillaume <louis%zabrico.com@localhost>]

On 6/5/20 7:09 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Louis Guillaume <louis%zabrico.com@localhost> writes:
>
> > So I added "USE_BUILTIN.gettext=yes" to mk.conf. Now it skips the
> > gettext-lib package, but now gets stuck the same way (in
> > gettext-runtime) for gettext-tools. What can be done?
>
> 1) See /mk/buildlink3/bsd.builtin.mk and read about USE_BUILTIN and
> PREFER.  Basically users should not set USE_BUILTIN and the PREFER
> scheme is for what you are trying to do.
>
> So probably
>
> PREFER.gettext-lib=pkgsrc
> PREFER.gettext-tools=pkgsrc
>
> or you can use PREFER_PKGSRC.
>
> 2) Maybe actually fix the header in your system?
>
> 3) Is there a mailinglist for AIX people, to see how others are coping with
> using a system where headers don't follow the rules expected by more
> modern compilers?  (I don't mean to object to you posting here, but
> rather am suggesting you might find help asking there.)

Thanks Greg,

I've found a decent AIX list, but haven't made much progress yet. For my 
purposes, using the system-supplied gettext would have been fine, but 
pkgsrc doesn't seem to want me to do that! gettext-tools always wants to 
build no matter what PREFER options I choose, and it won't use the 
builtin gettext-lib. It actually explicitly says so in the Makefile:

  USE_BUILTIN.gettext= no # force use of pkgsrc gettext-lib

Anyway - I'm going to try and bootstrap with xlc instead of gcc as it 
seems to be much less troublesome.

--
Louis