Bug#999510: libidn2 FTBFS for musl-linux-any: broken gettext check

[Helmut Grohne]

Hi Simon,

On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 08:46:15PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Hi.  Thanks for the report.  I don't understand, what error message do
> you get?  As far as I can tell, that idiom is used in many GNU packages,
> and if we really should change, I think the change should be done in
> many packages.  Is there anything unique to libidn2 here?

You don't get any error message. The check simply considers that no libc
other than glibc has a suitable gettext. The check is broken. That's why
the check has been fixed upstream (in an incremented version). Yes,
you're correct that many GNU packages need to bump up the version of the
check. It's totally non-unique to libidn2. Other packages include bison
and popt.

Helmut