Re: Fwd: Bug#1031952: gettext: Missing source for an installed windows binary

[Santiago Vila]

El 26/2/23 a las 11:56, Bruno Haible escribió:
> Santiago Vila wrote:
> > Summary: There is no source for gettext-tools/m4/csharpexec-test.exe.
>
> Fixed through
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=commitdiff;h=1bda6586b87f7e258c16bd0dca5c43048b9920a9

Thanks a lot!

For completeness: Would it make sense to add an indication, somewhere, about 
the way
to create the .exe from the .cs? This is something that surely everybody using
mono knows, but I had to search for it. I guess this would be correct:

mcs -out:csharpexec-test.exe csharpexec-test.cs

I don't think a Makefile is required for that, but if it's done in a Makefile,
it would help if it's not triggered by automake maintainer's mode (not sure if
that's possible), as I'm currently running autoreconf and this would force me
to add an extra build-dependency just for a single file. Before doing that
I would probably stop including the .exe file in the gettext-doc.deb package.

(At this moment Debian bookworm is starting to freeze before becoming Debian 12)

> > Note: The Debian package disabled the mono stuff in version 0.17-7 (dated 
> > 2009-08-17)
>
> That's a pity. Isn't GNOME using C# [1], and also isn't it useful for building
> mobile apps [2]?

I don't know. Nobody in Debian has asked me to restore mono support
since then, and the gettext package has become complex enough that
anybody interested would surely have to provide patches.

Thanks.