Re: PATCH: replace obsolete GCC libintl with top-level libintl from newest gettext distribution

Zack Weinberg
2003-07-03T15:48:35Z

Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:

> On Jul 3, 2003, "Zack Weinberg" <zack@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>
>> * ABOUT-NLS, config.rpath: Import from gettext 0.12.1.
>
> I'm disgusted at the duplication of outdated code from libtool in
> config.rpath, and about other assumptions about libtool in intl's
> autoconf macros. However, none of this is your fault, so, unless
> we try to get upstream gettext to avoid this, we'll have to go with
> the flow.

Note that I removed the capability to create a shared libintl.a from
intl/Makefile.in, so we aren't going to get burnt by any outdated
information. I agree the gettext autoconf macros are horrible,
though.

zw