Re: [patch/rfc] Enable PO files.

[Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>]

>>>>>>>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> 
> Andrew> - the output is put in the _build_ directory (instead of RO srcdir)
> 
> The only issue with this, I think, is how releases are made -- but I
> see from the patch that you already dealt with this.
> 
> Andrew> - insisted on using ../intl/
> Andrew> I didn't borrow that - GDB will still use an installed intl/ (I'm
> Andrew> wondering if its time to boot intl/ out of GDB's distro).
> 
> Hmm, I thought the point of doing this is that the stuff in intl,
> while readily available on Linux boxes, isn't so available elsewhere.
> I could be behind the times, though, I haven't looked at the nuts and
> bolts of gettext building in years.

Leading into 6.2, GDB found its self in a situtation where:

- intl/ wasn't needed
- on non-GNU systems, intl/ typically broke the build (serious)

yet we shipped it, doh!  Given this, the consequence of enabling i18n 
can be illustrated with the table:

    GDB:    <=6.2   6.3
    GNU       -     i18n
    non       -      -

(On non-GNU systems, unless we put effort into maining our local 
src/intl/, it will continue to break and hence will continue to be 
--disable-nls'ed).

Lets instead do what we should have done long ago, rely on the installed 
intl/.  We then:

- fix our intl/ build problem
- remove the burden of [pretending to] maintain intl/
- support i18n where it really matters -> GNU systems
- support i18n on non-GNU systems where intl/'s installed

> Andrew> +      find * \
> Andrew> +	  -name '*-stub.c' -prune -o \
> Andrew> +	  -name 'testsuite' -prune -o \
> Andrew> +	  -name 'init.c' -prune -o \
> Andrew> +	  -name '*.[hc]' -print
> 
> I never liked using find for things like this, since I tend to push
> files out of the way by "mv foo.c hacked-foo.c", but I can understand
> why you'd do it this way.  I suppose it could only negatively affect
> some subset of "real gdb developers" anyway, provided releases are
> always done from a pristine checkout.

Yes, true.

Andrew