* configure.in: Remove check for -lintl (Bug#9713).

The check breaks 'configure' in some CentOS 5.7 x86 configurations.
The check was helpful but not essential in Solaris 2.6 (1997),
and is no longer needed in Solaris 8 (2000).  Solaris 2.6 is
obsolete -- Sun dropped support for it in 2006 -- and without
access to that Silurian platform we can't maintain the code anyway.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 52aa133..a3bbe29 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2011-10-12  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+       * configure.in: Remove check for -lintl (Bug#9713).
+       The check breaks 'configure' in some CentOS 5.7 x86 configurations.
+       The check was helpful but not essential in Solaris 2.6 (1997),
+       and is no longer needed in Solaris 8 (2000).  Solaris 2.6 is
+       obsolete -- Sun dropped support for it in 2006 -- and without
+       access to that Silurian platform we can't maintain the code anyway.
+
 2011-10-07  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
        Merge from gnulib, fixing some 'configure' typos (Bug#9696).

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 57cc4dc..4af95b9 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -3008,10 +3008,6 @@ AC_SUBST(KRB5LIB)
 AC_SUBST(DESLIB)
 AC_SUBST(KRB4LIB)
 
-# Solaris requires -lintl if you want strerror (which calls dgettext)
-# to return localized messages.
-AC_CHECK_LIB(intl, dgettext)
-
 AC_MSG_CHECKING(whether localtime caches TZ)
 AC_CACHE_VAL(emacs_cv_localtime_cache,
 [if test x$ac_cv_func_tzset = xyes; then