Re: undefined reference to ngettext

[Bruno Haible]

Felix Natter writes:

> but although my glibc 2.1.x doesn't support ngettext, it does not
> link with libintl:
> 
> /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link g++     -o cogarithmetic  cogarithmetic.o  
> -lpthread -lmenu -lcurses 
> g++ -o cogarithmetic cogarithmetic.o  -lpthread -lmenu -lcurses
> cogarithmetic.o: In function `write_ex_stats(int, int, int)':
> cogarithmetic.o(.text+0xc3): undefined reference to `ngettext'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> ...
> the whole tarball is here:
> http://home.t-online.de/~fam.natter/cog-training.tar.gz
> ...
> checking for GNU gettext in libc... no
> checking for GNU gettext in libintl... yes
> checking how to link with libintl... /usr/local/lib/libintl.so -lc -Wl,-rpath 
> -Wl,/usr/local/lib

You need to link with libintl if it is outside glibc. Adding

LDADD = @LTLIBINTL@

to your Makefile.am accomplishes this. 

Bruno