On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 12:21:02AM +0200, Georg Schwarz wrote:
> What does BROKEN_GETTEXT_DETECTION do, and how can I see whether it  
> should apply to a (new) package?

It passes -lintl via LIBS to configure. You only want this for packages
with a *very* old gettext.mk fragment, even then it doesn't work always.
Sometimes it is easier to fix the stupid scripts directly e.g. when they
check for hard coded symbol names and don't count the prefix from
libintl.h in.

Joerg