Re: gettext-0.10.37 is not compatible with gettext-0.10.35

[H . J . Lu]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:37:42PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> H.J.Lu wrote on 2001-04-21:
> > gettext-0.10.35 uses .mo. But gettext-0.10.37 uses .gmo. RedHat 7.1
> > uses gettext-0.10.35. /usr/share/locale/*LC_MESSAGES/* are all
> > mo files. As the result, installing gettext-0.10.37 on RedHat 7.1
> > leads to many problems.
> 
> Dear H.J.,
> 
> Please describe at least one of these problems in detail.
> 
> gettext-0.10.35 and 0.10.37 use the .gmo extension for compiled catalogs
> in the package sources, before installation, and the .mo extension for
> compiled catalogs after installation in
> $prefix/share/locale/<lang>/LC_MESSAGES. This has not changed at all.

There are many problems with gettext-0.10.37 on RedHat 7.1, which
is shipped with gettext-0.10.35.

/usr/share/aclocal/gettext.m4 in 0.10.37 is VERY different from
0.10.35. For one thing, INSTOBJEXT is removed. Any po/Makefile.in.in
which uses INSTOBJEXT is broken when you do

# aclocal

to see it. The partial list of the packages are:

./fileutils-4.0.36/po/Makefile.in.in
./textutils-2.0.11/po/Makefile.in.in
./sh-utils-2.0/po/Makefile.in.in
./tar-1.13.19/po/Makefile.in.in
./grep-2.4.2/po/Makefile.in.in
./findutils-4.1.6/po/Makefile.in.in
./gettext-0.10.35/po/Makefile.in.in
./texinfo-4.0/po/Makefile.in.in
./bison-1.28/po/Makefile.in.in


H.J.