Re: errors with installing gtk - need help

[Bruno Haible]

Hello,

> 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
> 
> 2. so I downloaded the gettext source and began to build it,

Yes, this is the right step, pointed to by the above error message.

> 2. so I downloaded the gettext source

From where? The error message you cite indicates that
  - you are using gettext-0.14, whereas the current release on
    http://ftp.gnu.org/ is gettext-0.16.1,
  - your build attempts to use C# although you don't have a C# compiler
    installed - but the default configuration of gettext is to _not_ use
    C# if you don't have a C# compiled installed.

> 3.and perhaps not related to this dlist, however: when I try building glibc, 
> I get the following error
> 
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target 
> `/root/debs/extracts/glibcobj/Versions.all', needed by 
> `/root/debs/extracts/glibcobj/abi-versions.h'.  Stop.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/debs/extracts/glibc-2.4'

This is indeed unrelated.

Bruno