Re: gettext patches for cygwin #5: misc

[Bruno Haible]

Charles Wilson wrote:
> No changelog for these, because I'm only including them for 
> completeness.  There are two patches:
> 
> 1) dcigettext: I've been carrying this patch around for years, and I 
> don't even remember why I needed it.  It's entirely possible that it is 
> no longer necessary.  I *think* I ran into a problem where stpcpy was 
> not detected during configure, but actually existed in the cygwin dll, 
> and I got symbol clash.

Hmm, I don't see why this should be a problem. Since the definitions
in libintl have file-scope only, they can't collide with anything.

> 2) autogen.sh: I needed to upgrade to libtool-1.5.20 for full cygwin DLL 
> support, so I added libtoolize. However, because it must be invoked at 
> the toplevel, yet toplevel configure.ac doesn't invoke libtool, 
> m4/libtool.m4 never gets updated.  Hence this hack.

The gettext CVS already uses libtool-1.5.20.

Bruno