nls patches - need help with make machinery

[Zack Weinberg]

On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 01:22:42PM -0500, Robert Lipe wrote:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 
> > Unfortunately, the code in libintl isn't compiled at all on systems that
> > use GNU libc, because configure finds the routines in libc and skips them
> > over.  So this would not have helped.
> 
> Good point.  It could presumably be forced to be built on such systems
> for the maintainers of it, though, right?

I believe there's a configure option to do that.

> > I wonder if it would be a good idea to move libintl to the top level
> > of the tree, alongside libiberty.  This would avoid the problems with
> 
> Should this copy of libintl generally be updated to use existing
> portability machinery in GCC?  There is a lot of stuff that the rest of
> GCC knows how to get right that is reimplemented (or worse, missed) in
> libintl.

There is some advantage to keeping libintl in sync with the 'official'
version.  But getting the thing to work properly has to take precedence.

I don't have a strong opinion either way.

zw