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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">I've got a fresh installation of Cygwin, latest trunk (as of yesterday).</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">I'm Following install.win32.</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Doing the bootstrap/configure sequence on the main trunk, I continue to see the gettext problem that I reported several months ago. The intl directory is not getting properly created and populated at the trunk level.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">I end up literally watching the darn configure, and after it purges the old intl directory I manually copy the intl directory that does exist at extras/contrib/share/gettext.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Just to be sure, the following two directories really do exist in my trunk:</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">C:\cygwin\home\mfm\vlc-trunk\extras\contrib\share\gettext\archive\intl</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">C:\cygwin\home\mfm\vlc-trunk\extras\contrib\share\gettext\intl</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Anyhow, the above is a terribly hacky way to do things -- the current autopoint, created when I build extras\contrib on a current, new, Cygwin, just isn't working.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">I'm still hosed, however. Unfortunately, the current set of extras\contrib, on current Cygwin, seems to also burp relative to libiconv. Given that I've done the intl copy bit manually, I'm running into:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">checking whether NLS is requested... yes</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">checking whether included gettext is requested... no</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">checking for GNU gettext in libc... no</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">checking for GNU gettext in libintl... no</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">checking whether to use NLS... yes</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">checking where the gettext function comes from... included intl directory</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">configure: error: libiconv is needed for VLC to work properly</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">make: *** [config.status] Error 1</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">When I check:</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">C:\cygwin\home\mfm\vlc-trunk\extras\contrib\lib</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">I am seeing libiconv.a and libiconv.la</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Also, I checked:</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">C:\cygwin\lib</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">And there I am seeing:libiconv.dll.a, libiconv.a, and libiconv.la.</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Thoughts on what to do? Any kind of path statement that I can put in to tell it where to look for libiconv.a?</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Thanks.</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Mark</FONT>
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