Re: Fix a passel of libintl/libiconv issues

["Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>]

 > This patch corrects a bunch of issues related to the new libintl.  In
 > particular, it should make it possible to bootstrap again on Cygwin
 > hosts, where the old gettext probe macro and the new one disagree on
 > whether or not there's an acceptable gettext provided with the system.
 > 
 > Also addressed are the failure to probe xgettext/msgfmt properly; the
 > syntax errors in gcc/Makefile.in (I have no idea how that bug got
 > through a bootstrap on my system, but it did); paving the way for
 > proper dependencies on ../iconv/libiconv.a when we have it; proper
 > setting of several #defines in libintl, the victim of an over-eager
 > move to config.h; and a bunch more cruft removal.

Thanks.  I can confirm (on both irix6.5 and solaris2.7) that I'm able
to link cc1 without requiring --disable-nls.  So the problem where we
were missing libintl.a when linking has been fixed.


 > I have tested this on i686-linux and i686-netbsd1.6, and I have been
 > told that it solves the bootstrap problems on cygwin.  It does not
 > address the issue with system-provided iconv not knowing how to
 > convert UTF-8 to UCS-[42][LB]E; that will be the subject of a patch
 > which I hope to write tomorrow afternoon, when I am awake enough to do
 > bit fiddling.  I do not have access to any such system, so I would
 > appreciate help testing that patch once it is written.

Yeah, I still get this on both boxes.

I'll help test your patch, send me a note when it's ready.

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Kaveh R. Ghazi			ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu