coreutils-4.5.1 and gettext-0.11.5 incompatibility on DEC Alpha GNU/Linux (Red Hat 6.2)

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

A build of coreutils-4.5.1 on DEC Alpha GNU/Linux (Red Hat 6.2)
exposes an apparent incompatibility with gettext-0.11.x:

        gcc  -g -O2   -o uptime  uptime.o ../lib/libfetish.a  
../lib/libfetish.a  
        uptime.o: In function `print_uptime':
        /local/build/coreutils-4.5.1/src/uptime.c:142: undefined reference to 
`ngettext'
        /local/build/coreutils-4.5.1/src/uptime.c:142: undefined reference to 
`ngettext'
        /local/build/coreutils-4.5.1/src/uptime.c:144: undefined reference to 
`ngettext'
        /local/build/coreutils-4.5.1/src/uptime.c:144: undefined reference to 
`ngettext'
        collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Trapping the preprocessor output shows that there are two colliding
definitions of ngettext:

coreutils-4.5.1/lib/gettext.h has

        #  define ngettext(Msgid1, Msgid2, N) \
            ((N) == 1 ? (const char *) (Msgid1) : (const char *) (Msgid2))

while gettext-0.11.5 (via /usr/local/include/libintl.h) has

        static inline char *ngettext (const char *__msgid1, const char 
*__msgid2,
                                      unsigned long int __n)
        {
          return libintl_ngettext (__msgid1, __msgid2, __n);
        }

The result is that uptime.c gets expanded to

...
        extern char *ngettext  (const char *__msgid1,
                                             const char *__msgid2,
                                             unsigned long int __n)  
               __asm__ (""    "libintl_ngettext"  ) ;
...

It looks like one or the other of coreutils-4.5.1 and gettext-0.11.5
may need to be changed.

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