[Mono-list] Openbsd problems

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,


> I am following the instructions in the
> http://www.go-mono.com/mono-beginning/t1.html document, however it
> states that a minimum of glib-1.3 must be installed prior to installing
> Mono. Unfortunately the OpenBSD 3.1 distro comes with glib-1.2 and my
> attempts to make glib-1.3 have met with failure. It fails at
> configuration time with the following error:
> 
> checking whether NLS is requested... yes
> checking for libintl.h... no
> found xgettext program is not GNU xgettext; ignore it
> 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
> 
> bash-2.05a#
> 
> The really weird thing is that I have gettext installed and when you do
> a gettext -V to get the version information it says it is the gnu
> version:
> 
> bash-2.05a# xgettext -V
> xgettext (GNU gettext) 0.10.35
> Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is
> NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
> PURPOSE.
> Written by Ulrich Drepper.
> bash-2.05a#

In these cases, you should check the config.log file, which is the
output of all the generated tests.  Also looking at the configure.in
file should help pin-pointing why it does not like your gettext
distribution.

Miguel