Re: About libintl.a and libgnuintl.a

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

hui zeng wrote:
>       Thanks to your reply. Here is the detailed discription:
>       The target platform is ARM, and the --host options are arm-linux and
> arm-hismall-linux (two different ARM platforms). Using arm-linux-gcc, the
> compiled lib is libgnuintl.a (and also the .so libs),

On this platform, gettext's autoconfiguration found that the gettext()
function in libc is sufficient. So you don't need libgnuintl.a at all.

> while using 
> arm-hismall-linux-gcc, the compiled lib is libintl.a.

On this platform, gettext's autoconfiguration found that it needs to install
libintl because the support in libc is missing or incomplete.

>       When I use these two libs in two platforms with a simple hello
> program, only the one that links with libgnuintl.a works fine. ...
> It seems that in the wrong program, the gettext() 
> function does not have any effects on the qouted string.

Please make your way through the decision tree at
  http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/FAQ.html#integrating_noop

Bruno