Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Imminent release...

[Richard Levitte]

In message <address@hidden> on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:20:44 -0700, "Justin Patrin" 
<address@hidden> said:

papercrane> On 7/26/07, Stephen Leake <address@hidden> wrote:
papercrane> > Matthew Gregan <address@hidden> writes:
papercrane> >
papercrane> > > Both MinGW and MSVC need libintl-8 for i18n.
papercrane> >
papercrane> > Hmm. Then either the binary release for Windows does a
papercrane> > static link with libintl-8, or it is broken. Or you are
papercrane> > mistaken.
papercrane> 
papercrane> I just reinstalled mingw and rebuilt mtn and on the
papercrane> empty_environment test I get:
papercrane> mtn.exe - Unable to Load Component
papercrane> libintl-8.dll
papercrane> 
papercrane> > Or I'm compiling with some switch that disables i18n?
papercrane> > Hmm. config.log says I just ran "configure"; no
papercrane> > arguments.
papercrane> >
papercrane> > Are there are mtn tests that use i18n?
papercrane> >
papercrane> > Wouldn't the Windows loader complain if mtn.exe requires
papercrane> > libintl-8.dll, and it isn't present? I normally run
papercrane> > mtn.exe with a PATH that does _not_ have libintl-8.dll,
papercrane> > and get no complaints from the Windows loader.

Hmm, ok, if libintl-8 is linked in statically, it doesn't hurt copying
a libintl-8.dll if it's present.  NOT copying it at all obviously
hurts.

For now, I'll simply disapprove revision
1e72bdba9d257eafb14903c8eaa4d1e4148539e4.

Cheers,
Richard

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