bug: compiling gettext on dec alpha: workaround suggested

[Paul E. Johnson]

A build of gettext on our alpha system ends like this:

/bin/ksh ../libtool --mode=link cc  -g   -L/usr/shlib -lots -o xgettext 
 xgettext.o x-c.o x-po.o  x-python.o x-lisp.o x-elisp.o  x-librep.o 
x-java.o x-awk.o  x-ycp.o x-tcl.o x-rst.o  x-glade.o libgettextsrc.la 
../libuniname/libuniname.a
cc -g -o .libs/xgettext xgettext.o x-c.o x-po.o x-python.o x-lisp.o 
x-elisp.o x-librep.o x-java.o x-awk.o x-ycp.o x-tcl.o x-rst.o x-glade.o 
 -L/usr/shlib ./.libs/libgettextsrc.so 
/homea/pauljohn/src/gettext-0.11.5/lib/.libs/libgettextlib.so -liconv 
-liconv -liconv /homea/pauljohn/src/gettext-0.11.5/intl/.libs/libintl.so 
-lots -liconv -liconv -liconv -lc ../libuniname/libuniname.a -rpath 
/homea/pauljohn/packages//lib:/usr/shlib
ld:
Unresolved:
_OtsDivide64
*** Exit 1
Stop.
*** Exit 1
Stop.
*** Exit 1
Stop.
*** Exit 1
Stop.

I have learned from our sysadmin that _OtsDivide64 is in libc.so in 
Tru64 >= 4.0, not in libots as it was.

So to make gettext compile, I needed to get -lc out of the linker 
command.  I had to hack a long time until could find a way to make it go 
away, it seemed like no matter which Makefile I hacked it out from, it 
would pop up anyway. In the end, I had to find -lc in several text files 
in the gettext/src directory and kill it there.

I'm no master of automake and configure scripts, but it seems like this 
would be an important element for alpha-osf systems.

pj

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