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Re: nls patches - need help with make machinery
- To: dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca, martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de
- Subject: Re: nls patches - need help with make machinery
- From: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 13:51:48 -0400 (EDT)
- Cc: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
> From: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>
>
> > Does --disable-nls stop the building of libintl or just the use of
> > it?
>
> Yes, it does. I'm not so sure that after moving it to the top it still
> would, at least not out-of-the-box: Cygnus configure does not support
> many --disable options.
>
> > Further, I am quite sceptical that libintl will build as is with an
> > old K&R compiler.
>
> Can you point to a specific problem? It may be possible to solve
> it... To work-around any K&R problems (if there are any), I'd rather
> recommend not building libintl in stage 1 - although I'm pretty sure
> that this code builds on K&R compilers just fine; it is used in *many*
> GNU package, some of which certainly have been compiled by K&R
> compilers over the years.
>
> Regards,
> Martin
I am able to compile libintl using SunOS4 cc (assuming an appropriate
config.h is included to handle "const", HAVE_*, etc.)
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