[ale] compile problem: macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found inlibrary

[Michael Hirsch]

On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 11:59, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> It sounds like whatever you installed with apt-get moved or changed a
> link.
Yeah, sounds like.
 
> The gettext stuff has been a big problem with my compiles as well. I
> think there are a bazillion version around that are different enough to
> cause problems. If I remember correctly, the gettext stuff is a string
> preprocessor for gcc. It is heavily environment dependent. When the
> RedHat environment changed to en_US from ascii all sorts of stuff broke
> when compiling things with macros.
> 
> Sorry that's not much specific help. What specific packages did you
> install with apt-get?

A lot of devel stuff.  My box was not set up as a devel box when I
arrived at work, and this is the first thing I tried to install.  gcc,
g++, gnome-devel (which brought along a boatload of other devel
packages), automake and autoconf come to mind.   Oh yes, rpm-build.

--Michael
 
> On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 11:34, Michael Hirsch wrote:
> > Anyone know what this is?  I am compiling "rust", an RPM building tool,
> > and after a successful ./configure, I get this:
> > 
> > rust-0.1-8> make
> > cd . && aclocal -I macros
> > aclocal: configure.in: 22: macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library
> > make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1
> > 
> > The really weird thing is that yesterday I could compile it.  The big
> > difference was that I would run ./configure and it would bomb because
> > something wasn't installed.  I'd apt-get the package and run ./configure
> > again.  When I was done it could make just fine.  But I can't do it
> > starting from scratch, now.
> > 
> > Any clues?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Michael
> > 
> > 
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