Re: modules in base

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

> * Bruno Haible <oe...@py...t> [2005-01-13 14:51:34 +0100]:
>
>> 2005-01-12  Sam Steingold  <sd...@gn...>
>>
>>        * makemake.in (BASE_MODULES): added syscalls and regexp
>
> I added BASE_MODULES because
>   - the gettext/ngettext functions were in the base linking-set in clisp 2.33,
>   - moving them to a separate module (thanks - it's beneficial for the
>     code structure) causes internationalized programs to not work any more
>     without "-K full", whereas internationalization is a basic feature,
>   - the gettext testsuite was broken by that move as well.
>
> Whereas syscalls
>   - was not in base in clisp 2.33 - why should it be?
>   - is full of OS dependent stuff that doesn't help portability.
>
> And regexp
>   - was not in base in clisp 2.33 - why should it be?
>   - still doesn't support Unicode correctly when operating in a non-UTF-8 locale.

Additionally, your change broke the mingw build because there is no
gettext on woe32 and thus the i18n module does not build,
while both syscalls and regexp are platform-independent
(build on all unix and w32 platforms).

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