Re: [bug-gettext] activate --enable-relocatable by default for some platforms

[Daiki Ueno]

Roumen Petrov <address@hidden> writes:

> In this thread
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.devel/5366 is posted
> that libintl contain some absolute paths with drive letter (woe
> platform) .
>
> If configuration option --enable-relocatable is not set would libintl
> contain paths with drive letter ?
>
> If so what about "relocation" to be activated by default for woe platforms ?

Keith also opened a issue on the tracker:

https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?108469
(sorry I missed it, actually)

I still haven't had a chance to try it on Windows, but I'm confused why
'relocatable' matters here.  If I understand correctly, the 'relocate'
function merely replaces the original installation prefix with the given
installation prefix.  That way, it should work either with or without a
drive letter.

I see dcigettext.c directly uses LOCALEDIR (without 'relocate') as a
fallback catalog directory, but it shouldn't be a problem if you call
bindtextdomain properly.

So, what is the actual problem?

Regards,
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Daiki Ueno