nls patches - need help with make machinery

Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu
Mon Jun 5 12:52:00 GMT 2000


 > From: "John David Anglin" <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
 > 
 > > > The only one that I am aware of is the "inline" keyword in couple of headers.
 > > > I enclose below the log of building libintl yesterday.  I had patched
 > > > gettextP.h to remove the inline keyword but not hash-string.h.  
 > > 
 > > Removing it is the wrong solution. Instead, the package including intl
 > > should use AC_C_INLINE in its configure.in. That will add
 > > 
 > > #define inline
 > > 
 > > to config.h if the compiler does not support the keyword. No changes
 > > to the source code should be required.
 > 
 > Yes, this is a much better solution and would in fact have not appeared if
 > -DIN_GCC was used in the CFLAGS used for building libintl.  However,
 > this raises the issue that configure should possibly be run again after
 > stage 1.
 > Dave

This is already handled without rerunning configure in gansidecl.h
(which gcc's config.h includes.)

We can get gcc's config.h usable by intl as described here:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-06/msg00131.html

I think if we do this then everything will be fine.

		--Kaveh
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