[PyQt] pyqtdeploy and libintl on Ubuntu.

[Phil Thompson]

On 30 Oct 2015, at 12:05 p.m., John M. Hackett <john.hackett at icon-is.co.uk> wrote:
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> On running pyqtdeploy qmake succeeds but make fails with "/usr/bin/ld cannot find -lintl" error.
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> I am running on a newly installed ubuntu 14.04 container (openvz). Googling for this error has  not generated much useful information - I have gettext and libc6-dev installed. "ldconfig -p | grep intl" does not give any results so the library has not been installed with either of them.
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> There are some references to similar issue on MacOS but not much relating to Ubuntu and I can't find where I get get the library itself to install it.
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> I also installed both "libintl-perl" and "libintl-xs-perl" just in case but still get the same problem.
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> There was a comment here - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1505519 "Sorry, Ubuntu does not support libintl." Is that true? If so how can I use pyqtdeploy on Unbuntu? Or do I have to go through the setup process again with another distro (Centos? Fedora?). I really hope not as its taken about a week to get to this stage!
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> Is there somewhere I can get the source code so I can statically compile it and add it to the SYSROOT directory?

First of all try removing the -lintl from the Makefile generated by qmake to see if it actually needed.

Phil