Gettext use on Cygwin

[Mark Moriarty]

I use Cygwin, latest packages across the board, on WinXP Home Edition, fully 
patched.
I specifically use it to compile VLC, a cross platform video 
encoder/streamer/client.  VLC uses gettext, the bootstrap for it includes:
Autopoint -f

With older cygwin gettext, 0.14.1, during the bootstrap the autopoint would 
generate:
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Copying file ABOUT-NLS


However, it would still end up creating the intl directory needed.

As of gettext 0.14.5, however, this does not occur.

I tried commenting out the "rm" line at the end of autopoint version 0.14.5, 
and saw that cvs_dir and work_dir are, indeed, both missing an intl 
directory. Therefore, when autopoint executes the part of copying files from 
$work_dir/archive, there is no intl there to be copied.
I personally have no idea why this is occuring, though strongly suspect it 
is related to the gzip and tar errors that I show above, that occur when 
autopoint is executing the line:
gzip -d -c < "$gettext_dir/archive.tar.gz" | (cd "$cvs_dir" && tar xf -)

What I ended up doing, in my own copy of autopoint, was to modify it to the 
following:
if test `find archive -type f -print | wc -l` = 0; then
  cd ..
  rm -rf "$cvs_dir" "$work_dir"
  func_fatal_error "infrastructure files for version $ver not found; this is 
autopoint from GNU $package $version"
fi
#MFM addition
cd "archive"
mkdir "intl"
cd "intl"
for file in `find "$gettext_dir/intl" -type f -print | sed -e 
"s,^$work_dir/archive/,," | LC_ALL=C sort`; do
  cp "$file" .
done
cd ..
cd ..
#end of MFM addition
cd ..

This is clearly an ugly hack -- I explicitly create the intl directory in 
$work_dir, and copy the intl files over from shared/gettext/intl.  On the 
other hand, it does work, and after spending multiple hours trying to 
reinstall tar and gzip, and reinstalling Cygwin's gettext 0.14.5, then 
trying local VLC builds of gettext (a pull of the latest gettext source 
files), this is the best I could come up with for something that does work.

Thoughts/comments/suggestions?

Thanks.

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