Re: use native libintl/gettext?
Jonas Fonseca <[email protected]>
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Hello Jeremy, Jeremy C. Reed <[email protected]> wrote Thu, Dec 07, 2006: > I am a long time elinks user. It is my browser of choice. Thank you for > your great work! Thanks for your feedback. Always encouraging! > Is there any way to have it use the system's native gettext libraries > instead of building and using the src/intl included with the source? Not at the moment, and it is certainly not planned. Gettext has been changed to integrate better with ELinks: it uses the ELinks memory functions, has some specific wrappers etc. There is a bugzilla entry which is currently marked WONTFIX. Pasky's last remarks are: Our instance of libgettext is *heavily* customized and it is expected to get even more customized by the time, so using system gettext routines is not really feasible. - http://bugzilla.elinks.or.cz/show_bug.cgi?id=537 > Any patches to check for adequate gettext and use it if available? I do not know of such patches. > If not, would you be interested if used commonly-used autoconf to check > this? Patches are always welcome, but I do not really see a reason. Is gettext really that big? > (I also found that the Makefile system used in buildling elinks is > different than I am used to when using autoconf configure.) Yes, we changed to using a GNU make based build system instead of automake, since ELinks has a lot of build-time options that caused automake to generate huge makefiles because conditional are badly implemented. Sad, but having a Makefile taking several megabytes of storage is crazy. -- Jonas Fonseca _______________________________________________ elinks-dev mailing list [email protected] http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-dev