HEADS UP: New gettext update

Jeremy Messenger mezz7 at cox.net
Fri Jan 23 12:39:32 PST 2004


On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:21:47 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke 
<marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 15:12, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:49:13 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke
>> <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> What do we need to modify the GNOME bits to use the new gettext? I am
>> happy to do it (Gnome 2.5.x, of course) tonight and should be finish 
>> build
>> by tomorrow in morning (usually build 5 to 6 hours for Gnome 2.5.x).
>
> Just modify the LIB_DEPENDS to use libintl.so.6 (a standard shared lib
> bump).

Ahh, ok.. I thought, you mean more than just bump version. :-) Thanks, 
will do it tonight that will be done by clean installtion.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Joe
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mezz
>>
>> > Joe


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