Re: [Bug-gnulib] gnulib module for uintmax_t? (and best practice questions)

[Paul Eggert]

James Youngman <address@hidden> writes:

> --- modules/regex       4 Oct 2004 20:17:39 -0000       1.6
> +++ modules/regex       24 Oct 2004 22:07:33 -0000
> ...
> -lib_SOURCES += regex.h
> +lib_SOURCES += regex.h regex.c

Thanks for reporting that.  I installed the fix.

> I think the included libintl code that exists in the findutils CVS
> source base is a bit long in the tooth now.  It's probably time to
> update that code from the real libintl, too.

My suggestion is to use AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]), so that you don't
need any of the libintl code.  That is what coreutils, diffutils, tar,
etc., do.  This saves work during maintenance, and doesn't appreciably
harm i18n support in practice.