On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:19:27AM +0100, Matthias Drochner wrote:

> As I corrected in the next commit, this is only for applications
> using GNU gettext. Most applications use the intree one and
> are not affected.
> Linking against an old GNU gettext-lib-0.10.35 with the new
> buildlink2 semantics (eg linking in libiconv) calls for trouble,
> so this was necessary.
> (Imho it doesn't make much sense to treat the intree libintl
> as equivalent to 0.10.35. Either an application needs GNU gettext,
> then the intree one also doesn't make it, or it doesn't...)

Thanks, that makes sense.

My concerns with gettext are mostly for platforms which don't
ship with it in the base system.

g.