Re: locale aliases, and new gettext.m4

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

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 09:19:45PM +0000, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
> Hi folks.
> 
> An up to date gettext.m4 is failing for lacking _nl_expand_alias.
> This means NLS is being disabled on netbsd for many packages, and not on
> illumos or linux, which is very annoying to handle in pkgsrc.
> 
> I have no strong opinions on locale aliases, but we may want to do
> something about this, here are some options:
> 
> 1. complain at whoever wrote gettext.m4, if we think locale aliases are
> silly.
> 2. implement dummy _nl_expand_alias, e.g. return NULL. this is done by
> uClibc.
> 3. implement a real _nl_expand_alias

I think it is silly to leak the implementation detail of how locale
aliases are handled outside. So at the very least, fill a bug report for
GNU gettext. It likely isn't too difficult to do (3), but I expect them
to have f**ked up properly specifying what it is supposed to do in first
place.

Joerg