What is libintl.h and where can I get it?

Question

Trying to do a make install of git from source, and it keep kicking up the error:

 make install
* new build flags or prefix
CC credential-store.o
In file include         


        

Answer 1

I learned libintl comes from libgettext. If you already installed gettext by Homebrew, you would see:

$ locate libintl
/usr/local/Cellar/gettext/0.18.3.2/lib/libintl.8.dylib
/usr/local/Cellar/gettext/0.18.3.2/lib/libintl.a
/usr/local/Cellar/gettext/0.18.3.2/lib/libintl.dylib
<..snip..>

and the following works for me on the issue of "library not found for -lintl"

ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/gettext/0.18.3.2/lib/libintl.* /usr/local/lib/