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Re: nls support



* On 2019-10-25 at 08:02 BST, Frédéric Fauberteau wrote:

> I am personally in favour of adding a nls option to packages that provide
> localization file because it moves stuffs like LDFLAGS.FooOS+= -lintl or
> CONFIGURE_ENV+= gt_cv_func_gnugettextX_libintl=yes out of the Makefile and
> it makes it clearer.

Adding options is fine and a useful goal, just please do it carefully
(the bison breakage took out a lot of packages), testing builds with
it both enabled and disabled, and leave the nls option on by default
as others have asked.

Thanks for working on this,

-- 
Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com


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