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Re: AM_GNU_GETTEXT weirdness
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Marius Vollmer |
Subject: |
Re: AM_GNU_GETTEXT weirdness |
Date: |
Sat, 25 Sep 2004 01:36:54 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
[ Bruno, the gettext patch does not fit entirely smoothly. I have
CCed you on the discussion, hopefully you can help.
]
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:
> Marius Vollmer writes:
>
>> running ./autogen.sh now runs gettextize and that causes some
>> 'useless' things to happen, like the creation of po/ and the inclusion
>> of po/Makefile.in in _all_ AC_CONFIG_FILES statements in configure.in.
>
>> Makefile.am:26: AM_GNU_GETTEXT used but `po' not in SUBDIRS
>
> None of this happens here, what version of automake do you use?
I have just upgraded to 1.9, with identical results.
>> I guess all this happens for the benefit of programs that want to
>> internationalize/localize themselves. Right?
>
> I have no clues whatsoever about what the developers of auto* have in
> mind. You'll have to ask Bruno about the AM_GNU_GETTEXT/libintl stuff.
> What I had initially, was
>
> dnl i18n tests
> AC_CHECK_HEADERS([libintl.h])
> AC_CHECK_FUNCS(gettext)
> if test $ac_cv_func_gettext = no; then
> AC_CHECK_LIB(intl, gettext)
> fi
> AC_CHECK_FUNCS([bindtextdomain textdomain])
>
> maybe something like that is better?
Bruno, what is your view?
>> Simply wrapping gettext and friends turns out to have a much larger
>> effect than I thought. I fully expect that there are people out there
>> without gettext and Guile will not build for them. What then?
>
> That's why I was a bit reluctant about writing a patch for Guile,
> instead of only for gettext, which was all I needed. Anyway, this is
> for the better, and Guile should build without gettext and without
> libintl, of course. A problem is that I don't have a development
> machine without these, so I couldn't test.
I have a hard time convincing myself now that gettext support should
be in the core, when I have, for example, not accepted SCTP. Hmm.
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- AM_GNU_GETTEXT weirdness, Marius Vollmer, 2004/09/23
- Re: AM_GNU_GETTEXT weirdness, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2004/09/24
- Re: AM_GNU_GETTEXT weirdness,
Marius Vollmer <=
- Re: AM_GNU_GETTEXT weirdness, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2004/09/25
- Re: AM_GNU_GETTEXT weirdness, Bruno Haible, 2004/09/28
- Re: AM_GNU_GETTEXT weirdness, Marius Vollmer, 2004/09/28
- Re: AM_GNU_GETTEXT weirdness, Bruno Haible, 2004/09/28
- Re: AM_GNU_GETTEXT weirdness, Marius Vollmer, 2004/09/28
Re: AM_GNU_GETTEXT weirdness, Kevin Ryde, 2004/09/25