A section on gettext for the Porter's Handbook

[Yar Tikhiy]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 06:52:45AM +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote:
> 
> > +.if defined(WITHOUT_NLS)
> > +CONFIGURE_ARGS+=        --disable-nls
> > +PLIST_SUB+=             NLS="@comment "
> > +.else
> > +USE_GETTEXT=            yes
> > +CONFIGURE_ENV=          LDFLAGS="-L${LOCALBASE}/lib"
> > +PLIST_SUB+=             NLS=""
> > +.endif</programlisting>
> 
> Please .. this will break ports which have LDFLAGS= set,
> eg. openssl or database ports.
> To preserve LDFLAGS, the example should be:
> 
> -CONFIGURE_ENV=          LDFLAGS="-L${LOCALBASE}/lib"
> +LDFLAGS+=      	 -L${LOCALBASE}/lib
> +CONFIGURE_ENV+=         LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}"

This is a very good point!  Thanks!  I've modified the current
version of the paragraph accordingly.

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Yar