nls patches - need help with make machinery

Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu
Mon Jun 5 10:51:00 GMT 2000


 > 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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