Re: New release of gettext?

[Bruno Haible]

Jens-Ulrik Petersen wrote in
  <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2022-08/msg00007.html>:

> Is there any chance of having a new release of gettext put out, please?
> 
> We have been using a gettext snapshot from 20220203 in Fedora since the
> beginning of March, since 0.21 no longer builds with Fedora Linux 36 or
> later.
> It seems to be working just fine, though it is a little awkward to ship a
> snapshot.

Thanks for having reported this upstream, here. As far as I can tell, the
statement "0.21 no longer builds with Fedora Linux 36" is only true for
the ppc64le architecture; on the usual x86_64 architecture there is no
problem.

The problem that gettext 0.21 no longer builds with glibc ≥ 2.35 on ppc64le
had been reported in this thread:
  <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2022-02/msg00003.html>
  <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2022-03/msg00004.html>

Given the long silence afterwards, I had assumed that this had been solved
by the Fedora distro, by changing the glibc header files somehow. This is
apparently not the case.

Shipping a GNU gettext snapshot is not ideal, because 'autopoint' does
not work well with snapshots, only for full releases.

I have therefore made a gettext 0.21.1 release, that backports several
portability fixes from the gettext master branch. You find it, as usual,
in https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/ . Please use that in the next Fedora
release (November 2022, right?).

Bruno