Re: gettext in bootstrap-tools

2010-08-04 Thread Joel E. Denny
Hi Bruno, Paul, On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Bruno Haible wrote: > Regarding gettext, there is usually no functional difference between .mo > files generated by msgfmt 0.11 and those generated by msgfmt 0.18.1.1. > So it's probably not worth mentioning. For users who are trying to debug a bison build pr

Re: gettext in bootstrap-tools

2010-08-02 Thread Paul Eggert
On 07/31/10 07:46, Joel E. Denny wrote: > For example, the user > might want to know what version of autoconf, automake, flex, or gnulib was > used to bootstrap bison, but I'm fairly confident that most people do not > care what version of Bourne shell or coreutils I happened to use during > bo

Re: gettext in bootstrap-tools

2010-07-31 Thread Bruno Haible
Joel, > It sounds like you are giving me advice on whether to include gettext in > gnulib_modules in bootstrap.conf. Indeed, I misunderstood your question. > I am looking for some guideline on how to determine whether > it's helpful to list any given tool and its version in bison release > a

Re: gettext in bootstrap-tools

2010-07-31 Thread Joel E. Denny
Hi Bruno, On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Bruno Haible wrote: > > On the bison mailing lists, it was recently suggested that bison should > > include gettext in bootstrap-tools in cfg.mk. That sounds reasonable to > > me, but I see that coreutils and m4 don't do this. > > T

Re: gettext in bootstrap-tools

2010-07-31 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Joel, > On the bison mailing lists, it was recently suggested that bison should > include gettext in bootstrap-tools in cfg.mk. That sounds reasonable to > me, but I see that coreutils and m4 don't do this. The gnulib 'gettext' module is a substitute for part

gettext in bootstrap-tools

2010-07-30 Thread Joel E. Denny
Hi, On the bison mailing lists, it was recently suggested that bison should include gettext in bootstrap-tools in cfg.mk. That sounds reasonable to me, but I see that coreutils and m4 don't do this. Is there any general rule of thumb about which tools are significant enough to be l