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Re: texinfo and the NLS problems
- To: Philipp Thomas <pthomas at suse dot de>
- Subject: Re: texinfo and the NLS problems
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 01:58:56 +0200 (CEST)
- cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Philipp Thomas wrote:
> I nailed down the cause of the failure for the NLS stuff on
> systems where the gettext tools aren't installed, it's texinfo. Texinfo is
> also i18ned and thus also uses the damned gettext autconf macros, although
> in their original form, which is flawed to say the least.
FWIW, I verified that if I remove the texinfo subtree from the checked
out copy on my (sole) Linux box which has not been able to bootstrap for
several weeks, this indeed solves the problem.
> As it's now biting me, I finally volunteer to do that work [of
> removing texinfo from the tree]
Thanks!
> The really right thing IMNSHO would be to completely rewrite the whole
> gettext NLS macro mess.
You're not the only one. ;-)
> All in all yet another reason for why active maintenance of the gettext
> package is badly needed. But that's more medium range stuff.
...though one we that has to be addressed, eventually.
Thanks for taking care of this stuff!
Gerald
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