HEADS UP: New gettext update

Adam Weinberger adamw at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jan 23 12:12:51 PST 2004


>> (01.23.2004 @ 1449 PST): Joe Marcus Clarke said, in 1.1K: <<
> I'm sure that by now, people have seen that the main gettext port was
> updated to 0.13, and 0.12.1 was moved to gettext-old.  This is going to
> cause some headaches for GNOME users (well, anyone really).  What you
> need to do is first remove gettext, then install gettext-old.  At that
> point, you should be okay.
> 
> What would be nice is for someone with a fast machine to modify the
> necessary GNOME bits to use the new gettext, and do a full GNOME build. 
> If that works, we can migrate GNOME over to the new gettext (and then
> we'll have to remove gettext-old, and install gettext...).  Yes, this
> sucks.
>> end of "HEADS UP: New gettext update" from Joe Marcus Clarke <<

Should it be backed out until it can be better thought out and tested?
I tried a clean build test with the new gettext, and it's stopped cold.
This breaks *everything* in GNOME afaict.

# Adam


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