Subject: Re: libintl.a into base system
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/31/2000 21:01:28
> at this moment, there are so many userland tools that depends upon
> libintl from GNU gettext, and many of pkgsrc tools depends opon it.
(snip)
> do people think it a good idea to bring it in? if we do so, we can
> nuke most of the pkgsrc dependencies to pkgsrc/devel/gettext
> (which is necessary for libintl only, not for other gettext-related
> userland tools). we still need pkgsrc/devel/gettext for catalog
> file compiler and other stuffs. (it may be a good idea to bring it
> into gnu/dist/gettext and put reachover makefiles, but that is another
> issue).
done. how do people think about having gnu/dist/gettext and
reachover Makefiles, to provide /usr/bin/gettext and other gettext
message catalog compilation tools? i'm okay even if they stay in
pkgsrc.
itojun