[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1023437] New: No /usr/lib64/libgettextlib.so.0

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Bug ID: 1023437
           Summary: No /usr/lib64/libgettextlib.so.0
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 19
         Component: gettext
          Severity: medium
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I'm not sure this is by design or a simple mistake, but gettext-libs does not
provide /usr/lib64/libgettextlib.so.0 nor  /usr/lib64/libgettextlib.so nor
/usr/lib64/libgettextlib.so.0.18.2. Instead there is only
/usr/lib64/libgettextlib-0.18.2.so.

This means that programs that expect the generic libgettextlib.so.0 do not find
it. In my case this is when installing the Julia package Cairo: it needs to add
explicitly libgettextlib-0.18.2.so for Fedora. But when the next version is out
the package will have to be adapted again, which means that Fedora users will
often get trouble with that program.

$ rpm -q --filesbypkg gettext-libs
gettext-libs              /usr/lib64/libasprintf.so.0
gettext-libs              /usr/lib64/libasprintf.so.0.0.0
gettext-libs              /usr/lib64/libgettextlib-0.18.2.so
gettext-libs              /usr/lib64/libgettextpo.so.0
gettext-libs              /usr/lib64/libgettextpo.so.0.5.2
gettext-libs              /usr/lib64/libgettextsrc-0.18.2.so

[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1023437] No /usr/lib64/libgettextlib.so.0

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Daiki Ueno  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Daiki Ueno  ---
libgettextlib.so seems to have been removed after bug 650471 (I wonder if the
original problem is still there - if glib2-devel is available when building
gettext, the internal copy of glib shouldn't be used).

Anyway, still, it is not recommended to link with the gettext internal library.
 Do you know why the Julia package requires it?

[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 1023437] No /usr/lib64/libgettextlib.so.0

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Milan Bouchet-Valat  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Milan Bouchet-Valat  ---
Oh, sorry, so the mistake is probably in the Cairo Julia package. libgettextlib
is apparently only used to detect whether the gettext package is installed or
not, and "gettext" does not even appear in the code. Let's see what they say
first.

https://github.com/JuliaLang/Cairo.jl/issues/36