Re: GNU Diffutils 2.8 is available

[Albert Chin]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 12:03:00PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > From: Albert Chin <address@hidden>
> > Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:27:59 -0600
> > 
> > Any reason the intl/ directory wasn't included as part of the tarball?
> 
> My impression in fielding bug reports from users was that intl/ was
> more trouble than it was worth.
> 
> People who want localized messages tend to have their own
> properly-built intl library, which GNU Diffutils 2.8 uses by default.
> 
> People who don't want localized messages, or who don't particularly
> care one way or the other, tend to have problems building intl/.
> These problems discouraged some users from building GNU Diffutils test
> versions 2.7.3 through 2.7.7, which had intl/.
> 
> Omitting intl/ is a new feature of gettext, introduced in gettext
> 0.11.  I've had good experience with it so far, and am inclined to use
> this feature in the other packages I help maintain.

Has the new method been tested on non-Linux/Solaris systems?

HP-UX 11.00, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, AIX 4.3.2 and --with-libintl-prefix:
  checking for GNU gettext in libc... no
  checking for iconv... yes
  checking for GNU gettext in libintl... no

-R is being used on the link line which doesn't work on any of the
above platforms. I'll try to find out what is going on.

-- 
albert chin (address@hidden)