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Bug #15838 Gettext library not linked in correctly?
Submitted: 2002-03-02 15:58 UTC Modified: 2002-07-07 01:00 UTC
Votes:6
Avg. Score:4.3 ± 0.9
Reproduced:4 of 5 (80.0%)
Same Version:1 (25.0%)
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From: corlette at huarp dot harvard dot edu Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: Gettext related
PHP Version: 4.1.2 OS: OpenBSD 2.8
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2002-03-02 15:58 UTC] corlette at huarp dot harvard dot edu
Hi there,

I'm trying to get PHP working with Horde, and running into problems.  Basically, Horde says it requires "gettext".  So, I downloaded the latest "gettext" from GNU, compiled and installed it in /opt/gettext.  Then I compiled PHP with --with-gettext, e.g. 

./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local \
--with-apxs=/opt/apache/sbin/apxs \
--prefix=/opt/php --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl \
--with-imap=/usr/local --with-gdbm --with-xml \
--with-mcrypt=/usr/local --with-gettext=/opt/gettext

Compile seems to go fine, with a couple warnings of the form:
*** Warning: This library needs some functionality provided by /usr/local/lib/libintl.la.
*** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when
*** you link to this library.  But I can only do this if you have a
*** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have.

(also a similar warning for -lresolv; is this a problem?)

OK, so, then I install PHP, install Horde, and start testing it.  The test.php script provided by Horde seems to work fine and report everything working.  I did some additional configuration, and everything stopped working; pages wouldn't load, etc etc.  After a bit of digging, I finally found this error message in one of my server's error logs:

/usr/libexec/ld.so: Undefined symbol "_gettext" called from httpd:/opt/apache/libexec/libphp4.so at 0x4030
44f0

References to "gettext" appear in "libgettext.a" and "libintl.a", but pretty much nowhere else.  So here's my guess: PHP is expecting gettext to be in a shared library.  GNU gettext doesn't compile a shared library (I even added --enable-shared to the configure line for gettext, and still didn't get a ".so" style library, which I believe is what's needed).  Thus, PHP can't find the gettext reference, and when Horde tries to use it, it craps out.

About right?  So the question is, how do I either a) get a shared gettext library b) compile gettext into PHP statically, or c) fix it some other way?  Is this a problem with GNU gettext, PHP, or both, or some problem with the way I configured everything?

I'd really appreciate some tips and advice; I can't believe this is really all that hard, so I must have done something wrong.  What was supposed to be an afternoon project is turning into a week!

Thanks in advance...

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 [2002-06-06 21:20 UTC] sniper@php.net
Which gettext version you have?
In linux, these functions are found in glibc, maybe this 
is the same for openbsd? Just try configure with --with-gettext (without any paths)

--Jani

 [2002-07-07 01:00 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net
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