Re: [PATCH] gnu: gettext: Enable "xgettext --language=glade"

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:17:36AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Yeah, makes sense to me; so feel free to commit now.
>
> Would you still like to commit in conjunction with your gcc patch? There is
> no particular hurry.

No, you can do it separately now (my GCC patch from yesterday didn’t
quite make it.)

>> Are there other optional dependencies that are dlopen’d, or is it the
>> only one?  It’s OK if it’s just expat, but we wouldn’t want to add
>> bigger things.
>
> Not that I know of, this just came up as a problem... But anyway, things
> should not become bigger, right? If I understood correctly, the only effect
> of adding "-lexpat" will be to encode an rpath (and to need expat as an
> input to gettext, of course).

Yes.  It also means that from now on, gettext will depend not only on
glibc but also on Expat, and that upgrading Expat will entail a full
rebuild (so it can only be done in core-updates.)

It’s probably OK because Expat has no extra dependencies, is quite
small, and fairly stable.  Otherwise that would be less convenient.

Thanks,
Ludo’.