Puzzled about gettext dependencies

[Alexey Shuvaev]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:01:01PM -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Hi--
> 
> On Feb 9, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> > # pkg_which /usr/local/bin/msgcat
> > gettext-0.17_1
> > 
> > # ldd /usr/local/bin/msgcat
> > /usr/local/bin/msgcat:
> >        libgettextsrc-0.17.so => /usr/local/lib/libgettextsrc-0.17.so (0x33c7f000)
> >        libgettextlib-0.17.so => /usr/local/lib/libgettextlib-0.17.so (0x33cb4000)
> >        libcroco-0.6.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libcroco-0.6.so.3 (0x33d91000)
> >        libxml2.so.5 => /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so.5 (0x33dc6000)
> >        libz.so.4 => /lib/libz.so.4 (0x33ef2000)
> >        libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x33f04000)
> >        libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x33f19000)
> >        libintl.so.8 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.8 (0x33fc8000)
> >        libpcre.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0 (0x33fd1000)
> >        libncurses.so.7 => /lib/libncurses.so.7 (0x34004000)
> >        libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x34043000)
> >        libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x3413a000)
> >        libz.so.3 => /lib/libz.so.3 (0x3423c000)
> >        libm.so.4 => /lib/libm.so.4 (0x3424d000)
> > 
> > Is it me or the output of the latter command contraddicts the dependency database?
> > It seems to me libcroco, libglib, libpcre, and libxml2 are additional dependencies...
> > 
> > Have I done something wrong?
> 
> It doesn't do that here:
> 
> # pkg_which /usr/local/bin/msgcat
> gettext-0.17_1
> 
> # ldd /usr/local/bin/msgcat
> /usr/local/bin/msgcat:
> 	libgettextsrc-0.17.so => /usr/local/lib/libgettextsrc-0.17.so (0x2807e000)
> 	libgettextlib-0.17.so => /usr/local/lib/libgettextlib-0.17.so (0x280b2000)
> 	libncurses.so.6 => /lib/libncurses.so.6 (0x281b2000)
> 	libintl.so.8 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.8 (0x281f1000)
> 	libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x281fa000)
> 	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x282d9000)
> 
> I wonder why it's dragged in all of those...?
> 
The port autodetects the presence of these libraries and drags them in.
Taking a closer look at this it turned out that aDe@ has dropped
maintainership of what is referred to as 'autotools'. Not good :(

What follows is just an attempt to fix the problem, however it doesn't :)
and it seems that the port deserves more attention.

A little bit more than 0.02$,
Alexey.
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diff -ruN /usr/ports/devel/gettext/Makefile gettext/Makefile
--- /usr/ports/devel/gettext/Makefile	2009-12-19 19:54:28.000000000 +0100
+++ gettext/Makefile	2010-02-10 13:14:41.000000000 +0100
@@ -30,7 +30,10 @@
 		CPPFLAGS="-I${LOCALBASE}/include" \
 		LDFLAGS="-L${LOCALBASE}/lib" \
 		EMACS="no"
-CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--disable-csharp --disable-threads --disable-openmp
+CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--disable-csharp --disable-threads --disable-openmp \
+		--without-libintl-prefix --with-included-glib \
+		--with-included-libcroco --with-included-libxml \
+		--disable-java
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
 
 PLIST_SUB=	VERSION=${PORTVERSION}
@@ -53,15 +56,6 @@
 EXTRA_PATCHES+=	${FILESDIR}/extra-patch-nodocs
 .endif
 
-pre-extract:
-.if exists(${PREFIX}/bin/kaffe)
-	@${ECHO_MSG} "Gettext won't build with Kaffe's jar utility.  Doing:"
-	-${MV} ${PREFIX}/bin/jar ${PREFIX}/bin/jar.backup
-	@${ECHO_MSG} "Be sure to mv" ${PREFIX}/bin/jar.backup ${PREFIX}/bin/jar
-	@${ECHO_MSG} "if you abandon your attempt to build gettext."
-	@sleep 5
-.endif
-
 post-patch:
 	@${FIND} ${WRKSRC} -name configure -print | ${XARGS} \
 	    ${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's|mkdir gmkdir|mkdir|'
@@ -72,14 +66,6 @@
 .endfor
 .endif
 
-post-build:
-.if exists(${PREFIX}/bin/kaffe)
-	-${MV} ${PREFIX}/bin/jar.backup ${PREFIX}/bin/jar
-	@${ECHO_MSG}
-	@${ECHO_MSG} "Your" ${PREFIX}/bin/jar "has been restored."
-	@sleep 5
-.endif
-
 post-install:
 .for f in po-compat.el po-mode.el
 	@${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/gettext-tools/misc/${f} \