Subject: Re: libintl.a into base system
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/31/2000 21:01:28
>	at this moment, there are so many userland tools that depends upon
>	libintl from GNU gettext, and many of pkgsrc tools depends opon it.
(snip)
>	do people think it a good idea to bring it in?  if we do so, we can
>	nuke most of the pkgsrc dependencies to pkgsrc/devel/gettext
>	(which is necessary for libintl only, not for other gettext-related
>	userland tools).  we still need pkgsrc/devel/gettext for catalog
>	file compiler and other stuffs.  (it may be a good idea to bring it
>	into gnu/dist/gettext and put reachover makefiles, but that is another
>	issue).

	done.  how do people think about having gnu/dist/gettext and
	reachover Makefiles, to provide /usr/bin/gettext and other gettext
	message catalog compilation tools?  i'm okay even if they stay in
	pkgsrc.

itojun