%% =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Pinard?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
fp> Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> The default in make-3.79 -- borrowed from libit-0.7 -- is to *always*
>> use the included gettext!
fp> I'm ready to change the default, given that some clues are
fp> auto-configured to discover that the installed gettext is better
fp> than the included one. Including the system's gettext by default
fp> had created a lot of problems in the past, and I would not return
fp> to these problems because some (still experimental) version is
fp> better. Also, GNU gettext should _also_ be updated, it has been
fp> kind of put aside for `libc' work, and not everybody runs `libc'
fp> (yet :-).
>> 2) When I try --without-included-gettext, it doesn't even work!! It
>> leads to link errors:
Hi.
I want to release a 3.79.1 soon to handle various issues that have
arisen with 3.79.
I'd really like to resolve this issue along with them. This
conversation sort of died down, so I don't have a good view of the way
forward.
François, do you have any thoughts on why #2 above fails and how to fix
it?
Bruno, do you have any thoughts on how we could _safely_ auto-detect a
"good" gettext implementation? I think it would be satisfactory to
detect a version of GNU gettext, and brand all other versions "bad",
rather than looking for specific features. Is there a foolproof way to
detect the GNU gettext installation, maybe via some #define or
something?
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