[bug #64536] Gettext-0.22: lib/libintl.la not being installed

[Bruno Haible]

Update of bug #64536 (project gettext):

                Category:                   Other => Build                  
                  Status:                    None => Fixed                  
             Assigned to:                    None => haible                 
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #3:

The loss of libintl.la is not important:
The main purpose of .la files is for linking with libraries that are part of
the same package (in the build tree). While linking with shared libraries is
possible through .la files, see
https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Linking-executables.html#Linking-executables
, people usually don't do it this way. For example, in my Debian-based
installation, there are 557 files named /usr/lib/*.so or /usr/lib/*/*.so, but
only 7 files named /usr/lib/*.la or /usr/lib/*/*.la; that's roughly 1%.

However, the use of the 'relocatable' facility is not needed any more, after
GNU libiconv no longer installs a config.charset file and GNU libintl no
longer comes with its own locale.alias file. So, I removed this code, and as a
consequence, libintl.la gets installed again. Done through
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=commitdiff;h=e0caff2252091ebff1608d2a6f0780b08282dfce
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=commitdiff;h=b182c17096847cb581c3e2c3f42c145c47c7c7a6



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