xgettext (Re: replication of stuff in /usr/gnu)

Roland Mainz roland.mainz at nrubsig.org
Thu Jul 12 11:35:27 PDT 2007


John Levon wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:28:52AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > > Speaking of GNU stuff that should be better integrated into Solaris, the
> > > GNU xgettext is a strict superset of the Solaris xgettext, and it has
> > > important features.
> >
> > The GNOME & X builds also require GNU xgettext, since the intltool package
> > used by our upstream communities has some dependencies on features never
> > implemented in Solaris xgettext.
> 
> Xen too.

See my other email... IMO the "xgettext stuff" should be removed...

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Bye,
Roland

P.S.: Do you accept patches to get the usage of "xgettext" replaced by
bash/ksh93 $"..."-localised string literals ? :-)

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