find_lang macro (was: Re: Democracy player anyone?)

[Gianluca Sforna]

On 11/12/06, Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:15:26 +0100, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
>
> > Question: IIRC in the wiki there was a reference to some BRs to add
> > for using the %find_lang macro, but now I can not find anything like
> > that.
> >
> > Is anything at all needed for it to work?
>
> The macro itself needs nothing else than "find". You can examine it
> in /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/find-lang.sh
>
> But in order to (re-)build message object files, you either need
> BR gettext  [most often]  or  BR intltool  or  BR perl(XML::Parser)
> [the latter only if a copy of intltool is included with a tarball].
> When either of the first two is search for by a configure script,
> you see corresponding status messages about what is found or missing.
>

Thanks a lot for the clarification: maybe the packaging guidelines
could be amended with this info