nls patches - need help with make machinery

[Martin v. Loewis]

> 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