-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Charles Wilson wrote: > Well, I'm not too thrilled about automatically upgrading every package > that uses gettext to the latest version -- even those that aren't being > built *for cygwin* itself. Basically, with your patch, if you do an > autoreconf on the cygwin platform, then you're going to bump to > gettext-0.17 no matter what you've listed in your configure.ac.
Yes, it essentially changes the meaning of the AC_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION argument from == to >=. > That's fine -- probably -- for cygport'ed packages being built *for* > cygwin. Not so fine for packages that are merely being developed ON > cygwin as the development host (I've been told that there are folks who > do that). Hmmm, hadn't thought about that, although I don't understand why an actively developed package shouldn't be using gettext-0.17 already. > However, there is a /real/ bug in older gettexts that you've encountered > and are trying to work around. And, it's best if that workaround were > somewhat automated (e.g. otherwise you'd just say "edit configure.ac and > change the value of AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION"). Exactly. > What we need is an "out of band" method of communicating to autopoint -- > even when it is invoked indirectly by autoreconf -- that you do, or do > not, want to respect the value of AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION in configure.ac. > > Seems to me the right way to do that is an environment variable. If > autopoint was sensitive to, say: > > AUTOPOINT_FORCE_GETTEXT_VERSION > > then you could ensure that cygport (always?) sets that variable to > (e.g.) 0.17 (or maybe a magic value "CURRENT_INSTALLED" or something). > > Does that seem like a reasonable approach to you? What about enabling the autopoint -V option (which is currently commented out as "dangerous" on lines 164-166,212-222), and changing the version mismatch error on line 276 into a message or warning? Cygport could then export AUTOPOINT="autopoint -V 0.17" when libtool usage is detected. Yaakov -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAknUKO0ACgkQpiWmPGlmQSN4ZQCeNOC6nxiJrZHcUSdhYacfOWFR 4G4AnjBxD0HpN7RZy9xIvw0LzSwlV8su =Ng29 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
