[Freeciv-Dev] Re: gettext 0.10.38

[Thue <thue@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 17 June 2001 18:54, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote:
> This is a (slightly re-edited) re-send of a message that was
> originally a private reply to Thue.  I'm forwarding it here at his
> request.
>
> On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, thue@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > Could you point out those kludges that are now unneccesary with
> > gettext 0.10.38
>
> Our configure.in also contains this:
>
>   dnl Why doesn't AM_GNU_GETTEXT set LIBS appropriately
>   dnl when -lintl is required??
>   if test "$gt_cv_func_gettext_libintl" = "yes"; then
>       LIBS="-lintl  $LIBS"
>   fi
>
> I haven't tried removing it, but you get the feeling that this is
> something that should have been taken care of already.  I consider it
> very suspicious.

"gt_cv_func_gettext_libintl" existed in the 1.11.4 aclocal file; it doesn't 
in the CVS one. So we can be certain that the current code is completely 
useless.
In a quick scan of the current aclocal.m4 there is various code to add 
-lintl. I think we should assume it works correctly. Of course it would be 
nice to test it where it failed with the old gettext.

-Thue