Re: building on Ubuntu 4

[Bruno Haible]

Jeffrey Walton wrote on 2022-01-13:
> > Do you really mean Ubuntu from 2004? 17 years old?
> > You find the supported releases at
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu#Releases .
> 
> Yes. We still support back to GCC 3 and friends. The easiest way to
> test the old compilers is to stand up a VM with the old OS.
> 
> It's fairly easy to do. Download Ubuntu 4 from
> https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/. Install Ubuntu 4 into a VM.
> Once you log in, run the following command to fix Apt:
> 
>     sed -i 's/archive.ubuntu.com/old-releases/ubuntu.com/g'
> /etc/apt/sources.list
> 
> Now Apt works and you can install packages.

Thanks for the how-to. But supporting Ubuntu 4 is outside of the scope
of GNU gettext; I have enough work supporting the currently relevant OSes.
See also [1].

> Maybe it's time to release a new Gettext?

gettext 0.22 was released in 2023, and gettext 0.23 is in preparation,
if you would like to test that [2].

Bruno

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Target-Platforms.html
[2] https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.23-pre1.tar.gz