Re: build problems on old Linux libc5

[Alain Guibert]

Hello Bruno,

 On Wednesday, October 25, 2006 at 14:08:54 +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:

> Alain Guibert wrote:
>> On my old Linux box (Intel Pentium 200 MMX, Debian bo, kernel 2.0.40,
>> gcc 2.7.2.1, libc 5.4.33, GNU ld cygnus-2.7.1, libiconv 1.11,
>> pth 2.0.7, i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1) during gettext 0.15 build, make
>> fails:
>>| ../intl/.libs/libintl.so: undefined reference to `__pthread_read'
> Yes, the --disable-threads option is provided so you can get around
> weird problems with older multithread implementations. I don't have
> time to dig into the details; Linux libc5 is not a relevant platform
> nowadays.

Of course I understand. However pth 2.0.7 is a very recent version,
AFAICS the latest, dated June 2006.


>>| /tmp/gettext-0.15/gettext-tools/libgrep/dfa.c:2531: undefined reference to 
>>`wcscoll'
> Thanks for reporting this. I'm adding this.

Very much thank you: With your patch, gettext 0.15 builds nicely!


>> The old GNU sed 2.05 does not properly execute the script
>> gettext-{runtime,tools}/po/insert-header.sin
> The current version of GNU sed is 4.1.5. You can install it on an
> older machine without risk. There's no point in trying to work around
> bugs in sed 2.x.

OK thanks, I'll adopt a recent sed.


Alain.