Re: [Q]: reference "_nl_msg_cat_cntr" not found !

[Bruno Haible]

address@hidden writes:

> I'm now trying to build binutils-2.11 with gcc-2.95.2 on Solaris 2.6.
> But some "undefined reference" messages were found.

> gcc -W -Wall -g -O2 -o size size.o bucomm.o version.o 
> filemode.o  ../bfd/.libs/libbfd.a ../libiberty/libiberty.a
> size.o: In function `usage':
> /home/kiyoshi/install/GNU/binutils-2.11/binutils/size.c:79: undefined 
> reference to `_nl_msg_cat_cntr'

The gettext-0.10.35 m4 macros were missing a LIBS="$LIBS -lintl"
statement, and binutils-2.11 still uses that.

A workaround for you on Solaris (only Solaris users are affected) is
to configure binutils with --disable-nls.

The real fix will be that binutils be upgraded to use gettext-0.10.38.

Bruno