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Re: Incompatibility between current gnulib and gettext-0.14.6?
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: Incompatibility between current gnulib and gettext-0.14.6? |
Date: |
Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:15:30 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
> Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Or you could upgrade to gettext 0.16, which is designed to work out of the
>> box with autoconf 2.61, automake 1.10, and gnulib.
>
> That makes more sense. It'd take a lot of work to support arbitrary
> combinations of Automake 1.X, Gettext 0.Y, Autoconf 2.Z, and current
> Gnulib, and nobody really has time to do that. It's usually better to
> build with the latest tools.
>
> Of course some exceptions might need to be made, but I don't know of
> any reason for findutils to prefer gettext 0.14.6 over 0.16 nowadays.
I agree in general, although I'd prefer to see gnulib support autoconf
2.60a, automake 1.10 and gettext 0.15 for some time more, because that
is what is installed on my up-to-date Debian 'unstable' box. However,
I suppose they are recent enough not to cause any problems?
(CC to other lists dropped.)
/Simon
Re: [bug-gnulib] Incompatibility between current gnulib and gettext-0.14.6?, Bruno Haible, 2006/11/27
Re: [bug-gnulib] Incompatibility between current gnulib and gettext-0.14.6?, James Youngman, 2006/11/28