On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 06:49:12PM +0200, Juan Toledo wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:05:50PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> > > Ok. I've added the i18n infrastructure,
> >
> > After applying the patch:
> >
> > tooting$ make 2>&1 | tee errs
> > cd . && aclocal `./aclocal-flags`
> > aclocal: configure.in: 39: macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library
> >
> > It appears the changes require that the system have GNU "gettext"
> > installed on it; that's not necessarily going to be the case.
>
> It requires that a _developer_ rebuilding the configure file has gettext
> installed. The user that receives the tar.gz distribution doesn't have to
> have gettext installed.
>
> Is it such a big requirement?
I'd consider it so. I'd prefer not to add more "you must have this
installed" items. (In fact, I was going to look into *reducing* that
list; a while ago, Michael Tuexen, I think, was trying to build from CVS
on a machine that didn't have X11 installed - it had GLib installed, but
not GTK+ - and that failed because the configure script couldn't be
built without GTK+'s autoconf stuff being installed. I'm going to look
into whether I can use M4's "ifdef" to make that work.)
I was looking into having "acinclude.m4" define them with some versions
that somehow happened to get installed on my FreeBSD 3.4 partition if
they weren't already defined.
Unfortunately, the tarball you distributed made symlinks to
"/usr/share/gettext/intl/Makefile.in" in "intl/Makefile.in", which
doesn't do any good on my FreeBSD 3.4 partition because there *is* no
"/usr/share/gettext/intl/Makefile.in" because there is no
"/usr/share/gettext". There's a "/usr/local/share/gettext", but that's
it.
I'd consider it a requirement that it not require that GNU gettext be
installed in any system directory; at this point, at work, I really
don't ever want to install anything in "/usr/local" again - if I have to
install anything at all, I want to install it under my home directory,
as it's just too much of a pain to install stuff under "/usr/local".
(Trust me on this one. It really is.)