Re: news/pan and mk/tools/gettext.mk

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

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 05:37:46PM +0100, Rhialto wrote:
> On Fri 16 Nov 2018 at 15:25:23 +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 02:56:21PM +0100, Rhialto wrote:
> > > On Fri 16 Nov 2018 at 14:19:02 +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > > > *Why* does it want a newer version? It is *very* undesirable to pull in
> > > > pkgsrc gettext.
> 
> > > According to
> > > http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/reports/2018Q3/NetBSD-8.0-x86_64/20181109.1909/pan-0.145nb1/build.log
> > > it uses msgfmt --xml and msgfmt --desktop.
> 
> > I'd say we can just ship them statically.
> 
> That sounds a bit drastic. I guess your reluctance to use pkgsrc
> gettext-tools is to avoid mixing two versions of libintl in one
> executable? If that is the reason, there is no problem here. Msgfmt is
> used purely as build tool (not run-time) and it links to libintl from
> base.

It still ensure that the library is installed and that one can create
various fun. Little reason for that given that the two files are
essentially static.

Joerg