Re: [Fwd: Building gettext-0.11.5 bombs under Mingw]

[Paul Eggert]

> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:04:39 +0100 (CET)
> From: Bruno Haible <address@hidden>

> > It's easy to also support older systems that lack both <utime.h> and
> > <sys/utime.h>.
> 
> Thanks. But noone has reported a compilation failure for gettext on
> such systems, since the code using utime() is in place - nearly a year
> ago.  Therefore I don't think such old systems are worth bothering
> about (except for 'gzip' of course - this is a program sysadmins like
> to install even on the oldest Sun3).

GNU tar uses gettext, and it is another program that sysadmins like to
install on ancient systems.  It has code to support older systems that
lack utime.h.  The latest GNU tar release is still using an old
gettext version (which is bundled with GNU tar), so that release won't
trigger the problem noted above; but the problem might occur when a
new GNU tar release is made.

I suppose that we can tell people "if you run into build trouble,
configure with --disable-nls and try again", but I'd rather not
encourage bad habits like that.