Re: binutils xgettext detection bug

[Bruno Haible]

Dimitar Zhekov wrote on 2002-09-11:

> When no --disable-nls is passed to configure, but gettext is not
> installed, binutils fails to build.
> ... The binutils version is 2.13.90.0.4

I cannot reproduce this.

> XGETTEXT (set to ac_cv_path_XGETTEXT) is
> checked for being empty to determine if xgettext exists or not:
>
> XGETTEXT="$ac_cv_path_XGETTEXT"
> if test -n "$XGETTEXT"; then

This 'if' test determines only what output to print for the user. It cannot
be at the origin of a build error.

I agree the output "checking for xgettext... :" is confusing; it is corrected
in gettext-0.10.39 and newer.

Bruno