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Re: I18N fixes.
- To: Philipp Thomas <pthomas at suse dot de>
- Subject: Re: I18N fixes.
- From: Bernd Schmidt <bernds at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 13:08:17 +0000 (GMT)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Philipp Thomas wrote:
> NLS support in 2.95.2 is disabled by default. Question is, if we should
> backport the i18n changes to allow a user to enable that support.
>
> This would be changes to the configury (leaving the default to off), changes
> to libintl and Zacks patches for using safe-ctype.h along with my change to
> use either LC_MESSAGES *and* LC_CTYPE or LC_ALL.
This is outside the scope of 2.95.3, I think.
> If you decide to leave things as they are, which I could fully understand,
> I'd create a patch that
>
> a) makes 'configure --help' say that NLS support is broken and thus
> --enable-nls should not be used (alternatively just omit mentioning
> --enable-nls).
> b) changes ABOUT-GCC-NLS to describe in more detail why NLS support
> should not be enabled without further patches.
That sounds like a better plan.
Bernd