[Libguestfs] [PATCH 3/9] build: check for libintl, and use it

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 05:20:12PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 November 2014 16:09:56 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 04:35:26PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote:
> > > Look for libint/gettext and link to it; this properly detects
> > > whether
> > > libint is part of libc.
> > 
> > I'm a little confused by this patch, and also worried that it may be
> > reverting commit 75514ab57a.
> 
> It is basically looking for whatever provides the *gettext and 
> bindtextdomain functions, not caring about embedded libintl copies.  If 
> they are in libc (like implemented in GNU libc), then the LIBINTL & 
> LTLIBINTL variables are empty, otherwise they will contain the library 
> (usually an external libintl.so).
> 
> > Does this require gettextize?
> 
> Definitely not; this commit does not change the way messages are 
> extracted.

OK, ACK.

Rich.

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