Re: libvirt vs. gettext-0.18

[Bruno Haible]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> I've just realized that making all libvirt developers install
> gettext-0.18 will not be an option, so libvirt will have to
> be careful, somehow, not to pull in this new requirement.
> libvirt currently requires only gettext-0.14.1.

This can be achieved if libvirt does not use module 'gettext', but instead
only uses module 'gettext-h' and uses gettextize and autopoint as described
in the gettext documentation.

You then need to take care that the .m4 files brought in by gettextize and
autopoint and those from gnulib don't have different semantics. This has
to be done by hand, because gettext has never guaranteed that the semantics
of, say, longlong.m4, would not change over time.

Bruno