I have used the getopt.[ch] files to port certain posix/gnu stuff to DJGPP/MSDOS. The compilation of getopt.c fails because in the design of this file it is assumed that NLS support is available either through the system libc library or through ported versions of gettext and iconv libraries. On MSDOS/WINDOWS systems this can not always be assumed to be true. If the design goal of gnulib is really to ease the required porting work from posix/gnu systems to non-posix systems then some care must be taken concerning about this kind of assumptions about existing functionality. The patch below shows the source of the trouble and the way I have tried to fix it. Please note that I am not claiming that this is the right way to fix the issue. I even do not know if this is an issue at all. If the maintainers should decide that this issue is worth to be concidered then it should be clear that all files that offer NLS must be inspected and changed accordingly.
Regards, Juan M. Guerrero diff -aprNU5 gnulib.orig/lib/getopt.c gnulib/lib/getopt.c --- gnulib.orig/lib/getopt.c 2006-04-26 21:13:56 +0000 +++ gnulib/lib/getopt.c 2006-04-26 22:34:12 +0000 @@ -36,12 +36,16 @@ #endif #ifdef _LIBC # include <libintl.h> #else -# include "gettext.h" -# define _(msgid) gettext (msgid) +# ifdef HAVE_GETTEXT +# include "gettext.h" +# define _(msgid) gettext (msgid) +# else +# define _(msgid) (msgid) +# endif #endif #if defined _LIBC && defined USE_IN_LIBIO # include <wchar.h> #endif
