[MPlayer-users] make fails with codec-cfg libintl.so.3 error

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 21 April 2006 at 04:00, RC wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:31:13 -0700 (PDT)
> Dustin <dustin_atm_99 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > ./codec-cfg: error while loading shared libraries:
> > libintl.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such
> > file or directory
> > 
> > I tried a 'locate libintl.so.3'
> 
> I suggest "find / -name libintl\*"

It won't find anything except the header file.

> > and found the following:
> > 
> > /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/libintl_8cpp-sour
> > ce.html /usr/share/awk/libintl.awk
> > /usr/include/libintl.h
> 
> Yeah, if you have the .h file, but not the lib, I can see why that would
> fail miserably.  If find can't find libintl.so.3, you need to
> (re-)install the libintl and libintl-dev package.

There's no such package on RH/Fedora/CentOS. libintl functionality is in
glibc. This is very weird, nothing should require libintl.so.* on any
recent Linux.

Last time I saw libintl.so was on Solaris, whose libc doesn't support
libintl.

Regards,
R.

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