Gettext and %find_lang

[Michael A. Peters]

On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 14:08 +0200, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
> Hi *,
> 
> At some point in the wiki, there was a packaging guideline stating that
> the %find_lang macro required gettext (or gettext-devel). I can't find it
> anymore, so I've looked at /usr/lib/rpm/find-lang.sh and it does not look
> like it needs gettext.
> 
> Any info about the rationale behind this ? Was find-lang.sh fixed not to
> require gettext anymore ?

It isn't find-lang.sh that uses gettext, it is the generation of the .po
files during make that does. If gettext isn't installed, the lang files
are not generated.