{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/koreader/koreader/issues/1699","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/koreader/koreader/issues/1699/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/koreader/koreader/issues/1699/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/koreader/koreader/issues/1699/events","html_url":"https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/1699","id":114038663,"number":1699,"title":"building glib for Kindle fails due to missing gettext library","user":{"login":"mixaz","id":427918,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/427918?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/mixaz","html_url":"https://github.com/mixaz","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mixaz/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mixaz/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mixaz/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mixaz/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mixaz/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mixaz/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mixaz/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mixaz/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mixaz/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2015-10-29T12:26:42Z","updated_at":"2015-10-30T11:03:19Z","closed_at":"2015-10-30T11:03:19Z","body":"I'm building KOReader for Amazon Kindle, host OS is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I followed instructions in README.md, but build fails for glib with following message:\r\n\r\n    make TARGET=kindle clean update\r\n    ...\r\n    checking for msgfmt... no\r\n    configure: error: \r\n    *** You must have either have gettext support in your C library, or use the\r\n    *** GNU gettext library. (http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html\r\n\r\nMore detailed log is here: http://pastebin.com/9DC4An1R\r\n\r\nI see in logs some gettext related messages:\r\n\r\n    configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --without-included-gettext, --with-gettext\r\n\r\nI tried to use an older glib version but it fails the same. I wonder what could cause the issue.\r\n\r\nCould somebody confirm that building for Kindle works OK? I guess that the Kindle build might become broken because it is rarely used.\r\n\r\nInfo about my setup:\r\n\r\n    $uname -a\r\n    Linux ubuntu 3.19.0-25-generic #26~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 24 21:18:00 UTC 2015 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux\r\n\r\ngcc-arm-linux-gnueabi 4:4.7.2-1\r\ng++-arm-linux-gnueabi 4:4.7.2-1\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/koreader/koreader/issues/comments/152496518","html_url":"https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/1699#issuecomment-152496518","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/koreader/koreader/issues/1699","id":152496518,"user":{"login":"Markismus","id":5269101,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5269101?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Markismus","html_url":"https://github.com/Markismus","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Markismus/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Markismus/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Markismus/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Markismus/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Markismus/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Markismus/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Markismus/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Markismus/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Markismus/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-30T11:03:19Z","updated_at":"2015-10-30T11:03:19Z","body":"That could be a leftover, since we abandoned the gettext package in favour of a lua-implementation. \r\nIs the gettext package required by third-party software?"}}