Re: makeinfo version, NLS stuff

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

>>>>> "Philipp" == Philipp Thomas <pthomas@suse.de> writes:

    Philipp> Jeff,

    Philipp> while checking what would have to be done to get rid of
    Philipp> the texinfo dir, I discovered that the necessary autoconf
    Philipp> test for makeinfo is present and that the info
    Philipp> documentation is neither built nor installed when no
    Philipp> suiting makeinfo was found.

    Philipp> This is the regexp for acceptable makeinfo versions:

    Philipp>    [3.1[2-9] | 3.[2-9][0-9] | 4.* | 1.6[89] | 1.7[0-9]]

This seems reasonable.  Let's go with it, and see what happens.

    Philipp> So until the autoconf tests for gettext are fixed in all
    Philipp> packages, I propose to change the names of the cache vars
    Philipp> in the macros gcc to make sure we don't get useless
    Philipp> values from the configure of other packages.

That sounds like the best we can do, until we can get a new official
gettext release.  Please do that.

Thanks,

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