[ds6-devel] Re: stupid gettext

[Chris Leishman]

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 01:00 AM, Mauro Tortonesi wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Chris Leishman wrote:
>> I think I've sorted it out.  We need to concatenate the files
>> `codeset.m4' ,`gettext.m4' ,`glibc21.m4' ,`iconv.m4' ,`isc-posix.m4'
>> ,`lcmessage.m4' ,`lib-ld.m4' ,`lib-link.m4' ,`lib-prefix.m4'
>> ,`progtest.m4' into a file 'config/gettext.m4'.  This will mean that
>> autoconf should default to using these macros as opposed to the system
>> ones.  This is from the gettext manual (12.4.6).
>
> the GNU developers must be really crazy!!! are they always drunk?

Have you met RMS?  I've had the pleasure, and I think it's more likely 
they're all on acid.

Well - it does make sense since we already have files in intl/ for 
gettext - having the macros separate makes even less sense.  What is 
wrong is that this isn't automated via gettext or clearly documented 
somewhere.

After all this I'm going to write a HOWTO on this - it really isn't 
very hard once you work it all out - but your left to reading huge docs 
and trial and error to do that.

I guess thats what you get for trying to include stuff into 
distributions.  If everyone could just say "you must have gettext vX 
installed to build this application" then it wouldn't be an issue.  I'm 
still kind curious what makes gettext so much different from any other 
linked in library (except for the fact that it's included in glibc - 
and thats a good reason for thinking GNU developers are crazy).

>> I'm going to do this right now for the 0.10.40 version, and we can
>> discuss upgrading to 0.11.x later.  Mauro, can you do a full clean and
>> then build a new tarball for me to test out (to make sure it picked up
>> the right macros, etc).
>
> here it is.

Tested and working fine :-)

Regards,
Chris