coredump when compiling gettext from source

[Tim Prince]

Tim Prince wrote:
> Vincent R. wrote:
> 
>> I have installed a fresh install of cygwin 1.7 and I wanted to compile
>> gettext-0.17 from source so I entered:
> Did you apply the patch which is provided with the source when you get 
> it via the cygwin-1.7 setup.exe?
>>
>> ./configure
>> make
>>
> Did I miss an instruction indicating that configure and make could run 
> in the source directory, contrary to normal practice?
> If I see a failure, I'll let you know.
> 

In my case, with no additional options, it stops on account of missing 
$(top_srcdir)/gnulib-m4/extensions.m4.
The intl subdirectory build does throw an ld segfault at the point you 
indicated, with the additional message
6 [main] ld 2024 _cygtls::handle_exceptions:  Error while dumping 
state(probably corrupted stack)

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