Re: One failed self test for lang-vala

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 8:48 PM Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:
>
> Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > I believe I used --with-included-gettext to avoid a circular
> > dependency among iConv, GetText and Libunistring.
>
> On a glibc system, you don't need GNU libiconv, as iconv() is already
> part of libc.

Older glibc systems have bugs. I need consistent behavior on all systems.

> libunistring does not depend on gettext.
>
> gettext has an _optional_ dependency on libunistring.
>
> So, no circular dependencies on glibc systems.

If GetText needs libunistring, it's not really optional.

> On other systems, there is a circular dependency, and the way to handle
> it is documented in libiconv/README.

Yes, I do that already.

Thanks again for --with-included-gettext. I yanked it and things seem OK.

After thinking about it, I believe I used --with-included-gettext to
indicate I wanted the version of GetText from the tarball I
downloaded, and not the system one. I had no idea it really meant
something to do with glibc. Maybe that option should be
-with-glibc-gettext to avoid confusion.

Jeff