Re: complain.c:(.text+0x6df): undefined reference to `ostream_printf'

Lars Wendler <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Jul 2020 12:50:08 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.parsers.bison.bugs
Organization	Gentoo
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Hi Akim,

On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 07:31:06 +0200 Akim Demaille wrote:

>Hi Lars,
>
>> Le 23 juil. 2020 à 21:58, Lars Wendler <[email protected]> a
>> écrit :
>> 
>> Hi Akim,
>> 
>>> I think the problem is "simply" that your version of libtextstyle is
>>> too old.
>>> 
>>> I'm using 0.20.5.
>>> 
>>> https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/libtextstyle-0.20.5.tar.gz
>> 
>> In Gentoo libtextstyle is provided by gettext and neither version
>> 0.20.2 nor 0.21-rc1 seem to provide a recent enough libtextstyle. Do
>> you really expect distros to split libtextstyle out from gettext?
>
>Yes, I believe this is something that should happen.  In the gettext
>package, there's a PACKAGING file that starts with:
>
>> Packaging hints for binary package distributors
>> ===============================================
>> 
>> Although the source of the gettext package comes as a single package,
>> I recommend that in distributions of binary packages the installed
>> files be split into three packages:
>> 
>>    gettext-runtime
>>         Contents: Runtime libraries and programs.
>>         Audience: Anyone who wants to run internationalized programs.
>> 
>>    libtextstyle
>>         Contents: Text styling library.
>>         Audience: Anyone who wants to run or develop programs that
>> produce styled text, to be displayed in a terminal emulator.
>> 
>>    gettext-tools
>>         Contents: Tools and documentation for developers and
>> translators. Audience: Anyone who wants to develop or localize
>> internationalized programs, i.e. developers and translators.
>>         Dependencies: requires gettext-runtime.

Fair point. Will have a look at this once I find time for it.

>But Bison should use a stricter Autoconf check to rule out versions
>of libtextstyle that don't support it.  I'll do that eventually.
>
>Meanwhile, disable text styling with configure
>--without-libtextstyle-prefix.

No, that doesn't help. I still get the same linking error.

>Cheers!

Kind regards
Lars
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Lars Wendler
Gentoo package maintainer
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