Greg Schafer wrote:
Hi
The explanation in Ch 5 Binutils Pass1 for --disable-nls says:
"This disables internationalization as i18n is not needed for the temporary
tools."
This is misleading because only the Pass1's of Binutils and GCC are passed
`--disable-nls'. For the statement to be accurate, `--disable-nls' would
need to be passed to all pkgs during Ch 5 that can handle it.
It's a hangover from the days when the Pass1's of Binutils and GCC were
statically linked. (NLS was known to break compilation on some hosts when
linking statically).
No, it was added deliberately in order to avoid binutils dependency on
the host gettext.
You need to either:
1) remove --disable-nls from Pass1's of Binutils and GCC (and explanation).
No, see above. We don't want to require that gettext is installed on the
host.
2) fix the explanation to reflect reality.
How about:
"This avoids dependency on gettext being installed on the host. Since we
set LC_ALL=POSIX during the entire chapter 5, NLS would not be used
anyway even if enabled."
BTW there are still (broken) packages that don't build in the et_EE
locale at all (because they put "z" in the middle of Latin alphabet).
3) pass --disable-nls to every pkg in Ch 5 that can handle it.
This would achieve nothing in reducing the host requirements.
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Alexander E. Patrakov
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