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On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Dave Korn wrote:

> On 18 June 2007 16:35, Alexey Lyubimov wrote:
>
> > Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> >> You forgot to tell it to link against libintl.  Try
> >>
> >> $ gcc -o gt -g main.c -lintl
> >
> > Thanks Dave! It works!
> > But what do you think about this text from the gettext
> > manual, I've taken the example from:
> > "Compile as usual with gcc -o hello hello.c. The
> > program should be linked to the GNU libintl library,
> > but as this is part of the GNU C library, THIS IS DONE
> > AUTOMATICALLY for you under Linux, and OTHER SYSTEMS
> > USING GLIBC."
>
>   Cygwin is not "Linux [ ... or ... ] other systems using glibc", so on
> cygwin it is not the case that "this is done automatically".

It might be worth patching the man page for Cygwin to indicate the
necessity of -lintl.  Or we could say WJM and point people to
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/gettext-*.README, once that contains the above
information. :-)
	Igor
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