gettext packaging bug?

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Thu Jun 13 19:01:00 GMT 2013


On 6/12/2013 10:50 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On 2013-06-12 14:08, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> However, in actuality, neither Bruno's "gettext-runtime" (our gettext)
>> nor his "gettext-tools" (our gettext-devel) really represent a
>> "traditional" runtime-vs-devel split.
>>
>> Note that this means all of the following:
>>
>> /usr/lib/libintl.a
>> /usr/lib/libintl.dll.a
>> /usr/lib/libintl.la
>> /usr/include/libintl.h
>>
>> are actually in 'gettext' and *not* in gettext-devel.
>
> IMO they really should be in the latter; if you're building a package
> which uses l10n, you need it anyway for autopoint, msgfmt, etc.

Right, which is why gettext-devel *should* (and on 32bit, does) depend 
on gettext.

However, I'll investigate how the linux distros package gettext & co. 
It's possible TRTD is to have libintl-devel, libasprintf-devel, 
libgettextpo-devel, etc...and (most of) gettext-devel is transferred to 
gettext-tools.  As I said, I'll investigate.

--
Chuck



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