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Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #39970] fix gettext error during autoreconf


From: h . g . muller
Subject: Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #39970] fix gettext error during autoreconf
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 09:24:23 +0200
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Well, my Ubuntu 10.04 still has gettext 0.17, and attemps to install
Ubuntu 12.04 so far only resulted in crashing of VirtualBox. I am not to
keen on upgrading anyway; I still regret the day I upgraded from 8.04 to
10.04 on my laptop, because half of it doesn't function anymore since I
did (stuttering sound, and no USB). The higher the version, the more
crappy these things seem to get.

It seems furthermore strange that we would have to REQUIRE 0.18 in the
configure while in fact XBoard would compile perfectly with 0.17 if you
have that installed. This cannot be a proper solution. The entire purpose
of 'configure' is to figure out WHAT you have installed, and use that if
it can do the job.

So it seems to me that this is a bug in autoconf or the data we feed it,
and that requiring a higher version number is just a work-around. I would
like to see a patch for a proper solution, that can use both gettext 0.17
and 0.18 depending on which happens to be installed.





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