intltool.m4 and FreeBSD (Was: FreeDink in FreeBSD)

[Stephen Hurd]

I've attached your previous emails and added gnome at FreeBSD.org (the 
listed intltool maintainer) it looks suspiciously like a mailing list, 
but since I know nothing of m4 or intltool and you don't use FreeBSD, I 
don't think either of us can create a usefull bug report on this issue 
(I definitely can't since I don't understand the problem).

At the very least, I would expect an authorative answer from gnome@

For gnome@, this discussion is regarding the patch in 
games/freedink-dfarc apparently, $(DATADIRNAME) is "lib" in this case.

Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 08:50:05PM -0800, Stephen Hurd wrote:
>   
>> Sylvain Beucler wrote:
>>     
>>> There's indeed something about it in /usr/share/aclocal/intltool.m4:
>>>
>>> Apparently it checks for '_nl_msg_cat_cntr' and doesn't find
>>> it. However this test isn't relevant here because DFArc uses
>>> wxWidget's i18n stack instead of directly using gettext.  It would
>>> worth checking if there are similar issues in other packages using
>>> wxWidgets.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Hrm... I wonder then if the intltool stuff is the "wrong" way do do it  
>> in configure and if there's some wx thing to use instead.  I have no  
>> auto-fu and don't know M4, so I'm going to just ignore this and hope it  
>> goes away.  :-)
>>     
>
> I did a quick search and I'm not sure that many packages use both
> intltool and wxWidgets!
>
> Some packages such as vlc use both the gettext M4 stuff and wxWidgets,
> but not intltool (they translate .desktop files manually). Other
> packages ship with libintl and maybe use it instead of Free/NetBSD's
> gettext.
>
> Anyway, the intltool M4 code essentially looks for _GNU_ gettext, and
> if it doesn't find it, it installs in /usr/lib, which apparently isn't
> standard for FreeBSD's gettext - so there's a bug in intltool (do you
> confirm?).
>
> Would you mind reporting this to
>   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=intltool
> ? I used v0.40 to bootstrap './configure'.
>
>   

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