Installing glib from git in mac os x and gettext

Question

I'm trying build glib from source in Mac OS X.

I've clone glib repo from gnome site.

The autogen.sh script seems to run fine. But when it starts it shows this message :

autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext

This seems spooky. However it finishes without showing any error. After spawning configure script it stops with the error :

checking libintl.h usability... no
checking libintl.h presence... no
checking for libintl.h... no
configure: error: 
*** You must have either have gettext support in your C library, or use the
*** GNU gettext library. (http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html

Although i've install gettext from macports and it seems to be there :

arif@dev:~/sak/glib$ls /opt/local/lib/ | grep gettext
gettext
libgettextlib-0.18.3.dylib
libgettextlib.dylib
libgettextlib.la
libgettextpo.0.dylib
libgettextpo.a
libgettextpo.dylib
libgettextpo.la
libgettextsrc-0.18.3.dylib
libgettextsrc.dylib
libgettextsrc.la

One thing i've noticed that although gettext is installed, it does not have pkg-config file. Maybe that's why its happening .

arif@dev:~/sak/glib$ls /opt/local/lib/pkgconfig/ | grep gettext

comes out with nothing.

Answer 1

I ran into something similar and you might want to try to set CFLAGS="-L/opt/local/lib -I/opt/local/include". It seems that those are not included by default when running the gettext tests. You can either CFLAGS to the configure call or probably also to the autogen.sh