On Friday, May 24, 2013 10:20:25 AM Santiago Vila wrote: > On Thu, 23 May 2013, Daniel Schepler wrote: > > Source: gettext > > Version: 0.18.1.1-10 > > Severity: wishlist > > Tags: patch > > > > The attached patch adds the ability to bootstrap functional gettext > > packages, in the early stages of a system bootstrap where it would be > > unreasonable to expect the availability of complex things like Java or > > git. (As for the other build dependencies, they'd also mostly be > > unavailable -- especially glib2.0 -- which would mean the build process > > uses its internal versions of the libraries where possible.) > > Thanks. > > In gettext 0.18.2, which I'll package soon, there is a new option to > use xz compression instead of git for autopoint, in which case I > believe the proposed patch would not be necessary. Do you agree? > > (I'll keep this open until then anyway)
Sure, if it eliminates the need for git, then those parts of the patch could go. However, the parts that allow for skipping packaging of gettext.jar would probably still be necessary. -- Daniel Schepler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
