./configure --disable-nls fails on xgettext

[dobey]

I ran 'make dist' on Ubuntu and copied the package to an opensolaris machine.

on opensolaris ./configure
checking for gmsgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/gmsgfmt
/usr/bin/xgettext: illegal option -- version
Usage: xgettext [-a [-x exclude-file]] [-jns][-c comment-tag]
        [-d default-domain] [-m prefix] [-M suffix] [-p pathname] files ...
        xgettext -h
ERROR: Cannot open file --version.
configure: error: GNU gettext tools not found; required for intltool

then tried ./configure --disable-nls

checking for gmsgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/gmsgfmt
/usr/bin/xgettext: illegal option -- version
Usage: xgettext [-a [-x exclude-file]] [-jns][-c comment-tag]
        [-d default-domain] [-m prefix] [-M suffix] [-p pathname] files ...
        xgettext -h
ERROR: Cannot open file --version.
configure: error: GNU gettext tools not found; required for intltool

[Данило Шеган (danilo)]

We don't support non-GNU xgettext: Solaris one (the only one with some feature-parity) doesn't have the --keyword argument, so it won't work for any of the packages using anything other than what's hard-coded in it. Rodney, if you don't mind, I'd mark this as "Won't fix".

FWIW, according to http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5165/xgettext-1?a=view, only gettext() and dgettext() calls are extracted.

[dobey (dobey)]

Danilo, I think this should stay open, because it still fails with --disable-nls (which is why I agreed to fix it in the first place). The bug isn't mine personally, I just moved it over from bugzilla.gnome.org.

[fujiwara (takao-fujiwara)]

Replying the original issue.

> I ran 'make dist' on Ubuntu and copied the package to an opensolaris machine.

If you build GNU applications on OpenSolaris, you need to install SUNWgnu-gettext then I think your issue will be fixed.