Comment 2 for bug 28424

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:21:00 +0900
From: akira yamada <email address hidden>
To: Roger Leigh <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#347759: ruby1.8-dev: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/mkmf.rb have_func()
 fails to find functions in libc

Roger Leigh wrote:
> $ cat extconf.rb
> require 'mkmf'
>
> $LDFLAGS = "-L/usr/local/lib";
> $CFLAGS = "-I/usr/local/include";
> have_library( "xpg4", "setlocale" );
> have_header( "locale.h" );
> if ( have_header( "libintl.h" ) and (have_library( "intl", "gettext" )
> or have_func( "gettext" )) )
> create_makefile( "intl" );
> end
>
> This fails to find gettext() in libc, and so the build fails.

I think it is not a bug of mkmf.rb.

  $ ruby1.8 -rmkmf -e 'have_func("gettext")'
  checking for gettext()... no
  $ ruby1.8 -rmkmf -e 'have_func("gettext", "libintl.h")'
  checking for gettext()... yes

How about the following patch?:

--- extconf.rb.orig 2006-01-12 23:17:49.000000000 +0900
+++ extconf.rb 2006-01-12 23:17:27.000000000 +0900
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 require 'mkmf'

 $LDFLAGS = "-L/usr/local/lib";
 $CFLAGS = "-I/usr/local/include";
 have_library( "xpg4", "setlocale" );
 have_header( "locale.h" );
 if ( have_header( "libintl.h" ) and
     (have_library( "intl", "gettext" ) or
- have_func( "gettext" )) )
+ have_func( "gettext", "libintl.h" )) )
     create_makefile( "intl" );
 end

--
akira yamada