[Buildroot] Glib2 build problem

John Voltz john.voltz at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 14:08:08 UTC 2008


Take a look inside config.log. You can find the compiler error there that
caused the configure script to fail. That usually tells a lot about the real
problem.

John


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Christian SCHWARZ <christian.schwarz at st.com>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I encounter a build problem with glib2 for an ARM11 target. The error
> message is the following:
>
> ---------------snip---------------------
> [...]
> checking libintl.h usability... yes
> checking libintl.h presence... yes
> checking for libintl.h... yes
> checking for ngettext in libc... no
> checking for bindtextdomain in -lintl... no
> checking if -liconv is needed to use gettext...
> checking for ngettext in -lintl... no
> configure: error:
> *** You must have either have gettext support in your C library, or use
> the
> *** GNU gettext library. (http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html
> ---------------------snap-------------------------------------
>
> It seems as though I should configure ngettext support in libintl, but I
> don't know how to do so. Is the alternative rebuilding the uclibc,
> similar to what has been discussed on the mailing list?:
>
> http://www.nabble.com/Kindly-help-me-to-build-glib2-on-arm926-platform-td12012803.html
>
> Buildroot snapshot is 2008-17-03. A cross-compiling toolchain for ARM
> Linux has been built (previously) with buildroot.
>
> thanks for any hints,
> Christian
>
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