Building gettext on ARM?

[Andrew Turner]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 22:08:25 -0500
George Neville-Neil <gnn at neville-neil.com> wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> I believe this is an issue that may run deeper than just gettext:
> 
> ===>  Building for gettext-0.18.1.1
> Making all in gnulib-local
> Making all in gettext-runtime
> make  all-recursive
> Making all in doc
> Making all in intl
> /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/libtool  --tag=CC --mode=compile cc -c
> -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\"
> -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/usr/local/share/locale\"
> -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DBUILDING_LIBINTL -DBUILDING_DLL
> -DIN_LIBINTL  -DENABLE_RELOCATABLE=1 -DIN_LIBRARY
> -DINSTALLDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DNO_XMALLOC
> -Dset_relocation_prefix=libintl_set_relocation_prefix
> -Drelocate=libintl_relocate  -DDEPENDS_ON_LIBICONV=1 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/local/include -O -pipe
> -fvisibility=hidden  ./bindtextdom.c libtool: compile:  cc -c
> -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\"
> -DLOCALE_ALIAS_PATH=\"/usr/local/share/locale\"
> -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DBUILDING_LIBINTL -DBUILDING_DLL
> -DIN_LIBINTL -DENABLE_RELOCATABLE=1 -DIN_LIBRARY
> -DINSTALLDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\" -DNO_XMALLOC
> -Dset_relocation_prefix=libintl_set_relocation_prefix
> -Drelocate=libintl_relocate -DDEPENDS_ON_LIBICONV=1 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/local/include -O -pipe
> -fvisibility=hidden ./bindtextdom.c  -fPIC -DPIC
> -o .libs/bindtextdom.o In file included
> from ./bindtextdom.c:24: /usr/include/stddef.h:41: error: two or more
> data types in declaration specifiers *** [bindtextdom.lo] Signal 11
> 
> 
> The offending line is:
> 
> #include <sys/cdefs.h>
> #include <sys/_null.h>
> #include <sys/_types.h>
> 
> typedef __ptrdiff_t     ptrdiff_t;     <--- Line 41
> 
> Thoughts?
> Best,
> George

I'm unable to reproduce this build failure. I am, however, running an
EABI system so that may be enough of a difference.

Can you send me gettext-runtime/config.h and
gettext-runtime/config.log. I suspect the check for ptrdiff_t is
failing and the preprocessor is defining it as something else.

Andrew