Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> writes: >> Would you please reconsider about msgfmt default behaviour? > > Yes. And since the industry trend of endianness goes in favour of little- > endian CPUs (even PowerPC and ARM now exist in little-endian flavour), > the default behaviour should be to generate little-endian .mo file. > > In 2012, in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=671257, > I wrote "Users of PowerPC systems have the same right to optimized > MO files as users of x86 systems. Therefore I would like to have the > issue solved in Debian's build system." But now the goal is to make > reproducible builds not only possible, but also easy, and this has > higher importance than a few CPU cycles on big-endian PowerPC or ARM.
Thanks, well said and the patch looks good. Could you install it? Regards, -- Daiki Ueno
