Re: gettext and expat

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:22:37PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> Trying to update gtk3 to 3.16.3, configure fails with
> 
>   GNU gettext 0.18.3 or newer is required

And wtf can't they pre-build the catalogs like any normal user?

> Rebuilding gettext-tools with the attached patch allows xgettext to
> understand Glade files.
> 
> The reason for not just committing is, is that expat was specifically
> disabled in devel/gettext-tools/Makefile:
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.3
> date: 2006-02-20 14:04:45 +0000;  author: joerg;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -1;
> Never allow configure to detect libexpat. Fixes PR 28032.
> ----------------------------
> 
> Commit patch?

Not without testing on a number of platforms.

Joerg