From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19012 invoked by alias); 23 Jan 2005 21:45:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 18954 invoked from network); 23 Jan 2005 21:45:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO romy.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.66) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 23 Jan 2005 21:45:04 -0000 Received: from zaretski ([80.230.144.110]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id AJB88600 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:44:55 +0200 (IST) Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 21:45:00 -0000 From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: Mark Kettenis Message-ID: <01c50194$Blat.v2.4$74f49220@zahav.net.il> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 CC: gdb@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <200501231413.j0NEDHo3069791@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (message from Mark Kettenis on Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:13:17 +0100 (CET)) Subject: Re: Bring back the intl subdirectory please Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <200501221604.j0MG4hV2001437@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <01c500b3$Blat.v2.4$1348a0c0@zahav.net.il> <200501231413.j0NEDHo3069791@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> X-SW-Source: 2005-01/txt/msg00114.txt.bz2 > Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:13:17 +0100 (CET) > From: Mark Kettenis > CC: eliz@gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com > > 1. Drop intl/ and only enable NLS if an external libintl is available > (which on GNU/Linux systems is available as part of glibc). We'll > need to upgrade the configuration magic in bfd/, opcodes/, gdb/, > binutila/, gas/ and ld/. I've tried this for bfd/, opcode/ and > gdb/ which seems to work reasonably well. > > 2. Update intl/. We can either upgrade to the gettext used by GCC or > a more recent version. The GCC version is probably easier since it > already has the modifications needed for the layout of our source > tree. > > There is of course the third option: > > 3. We give shit about anything that's not GNU. GNU/Linux is now so > dominant that we don't care about other systems. Users of non-free > software deserve what they get and should not complain. > > I hope that option doesn't have any backers. Me too. > Anyway, the argument for option #1 is that intl/ might not build > properly on some (presumably) non-GNU systems. Even if that is true, it couldn't do any more harm than now, since i18n in GDB is currently broken on _all_ non-GNU systems. > Personaly I don't really care about internationalization, so I'd vote > for #1. Even if we don't care about i18n, it wouldn't be nice to go for #1 because of the i18n-related work already invested in GDB (by Baurjan and others).