[OE-core] glib-2.0 fails to configure with USE_NLS="no"

[Burton, Ross]

GLib doesn't really support disable-nls, no.  I guess we need to force it
on for target builds, as I now hack it to work without gettext for native.

Ross

On 16 January 2018 at 11:55, Mike Crowe <mac at mcrowe.com> wrote:

> On 15 January 2018 at 17:53, Mike Crowe <mac at mcrowe.com> wrote:
> >> If I add USE_NLS = "no" to local.conf, then glib-2.0 fails to configure:
> >>
> >> | checking for ngettext in libc... yes
> >> | checking for dgettext in libc... yes
> >> | checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... (cached) yes
> >> | checking for msgfmt... no
> >> | 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)
> >>
> >> It seems that glib-2.0 does not support --disable-nls and always
> requires
> >> gettext.
> >>
> >> I can avoid this error by adding gettext-native to glib-2.0's DEPENDS,
> but
> >> I'm not sure whether this is solution would be acceptable.
> >>
> >> Is there a better way?
>
> On Monday 15 January 2018 at 19:34:35 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> > Have a look at what just landed in master...
>
> Perhaps I'm being stupid, but it looks like nothing has landed on master
> since Sunday.
>
> Looking at the history, I see 1ef45d377519983df827650cd0913e0d2c8a785b ,
> but I already had that change. Reverting it does appear to fix the problem
> though. Is that what you meant? If not, please can you point me at the
> commit you are referring to?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mike.
>
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