Re: [Fink-devel] gettext-0.18 issues

[Hanspeter N. <fi...@sn...>]

On 6/24/2012 7:27 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> Can you remind me (well, us) what the issues with gettext-0.18 were?
> Folks are getting a build error with clang and gettext-tools 0.17-19 on
> <redacted>, but it seems not to occur with gettext-tools-0.18.1.1.

It's been a while and unfortunately I remember very little of the details.

This is what I remember and what I can glean from my sparse CVS logs on 
the subject:

I locally bumped libgettext8-shlibs to 0.18 back in Feb 2011 (according 
to my experimental), but I then removed it 5 months later.

As I recall, one package (linuxdcpp?) ended up miscompiling against it 
and having runtime failures (60% sure it was runtime failures vs 
buildtime failure). It was more important to me to have a working 
package at that point vs hunting down the cause, so I removed 
local-gettext-0.18 and went back to fink-gettext-0.17.

The only other thing I can find in my experimental CVS logs was that 
there was some incompatibility with how libintl_setlocale was being 
defined. gnash didn't like it, but I patched around it following 
Macports example of "#undef setlocale" for gnash (no idea if this has 
been fixed in 0.18.1.1.)

So that's the extent of what I remember about gettext-0.18.  Sorry I'm 
not able to provide any more details.

Hanspeter