From:	"Tim 'Zastai' Van Holder" <zastai AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU gettext-0.10.35
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Tim 'Zastai' Van Holder wrote:
>
> > My previous port didn't do this; instead it defined the
> > commonly used _(foo) macro to use gettext__.
>
> Doesn't this break configure scripts which probe the system for gettext
> being installed?
No (well, not usually). GNU programs generally use the AM_GNU_GETTEXT
macro to add i18n support (Cygnus trees use CY_GNU_GETTEXT). As of serial
104 (or thereabouts) of gettext.m4 (the macro file that defines
AM_GNU_GETTEXT),
Ulrich Drepper, the gettext maintainer, added a workaround so gettext won't
be found
in libc under DJGPP; it is then found later in libintl.
The only problems are that:
  a) Some packages still use old versions of this macro, eg fp_GNU_GETTEXT.
This is of
      course easily fixed by editing configure.in (or acinclude.m4, or ...,
depending on where the
      macro is used). This will, however, require autoconf/automake to
rgenerate configure.
  b) The gettext.m4 is not part of aclocal (automake) yet (I think). Many
packages include
      outdated releases of libintl (eg 0.10.32); the gettext.m4 didn't have
the DJGPP workaround
      then. I recommend putting the correct gettext.m4 (and cygettext.m4 if
you use Cygnus
      packages too) in $DJDIR/share/aclocal, and remove the versions
included in the package.
      Running aclocal will then use the correct macro.

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