Re: gettext cvs

[Charles Wilson]

Bruno Haible wrote:
> > I've been trying to get cvs gettext to compile on cygwin.
>
> Welcome! I do still have your mail and patch from 2005-11-27, but I'm
> wondering which parts of the patch are still needed after we discussed
> the first round in four or five parallel threads.

Very little, actually.  I did try to summarize the results of that 
multi-thread conversation here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2005-11/msg00102.html

The changes I now need against current CVS are mostly unrelated to those 
old issues, and have more to do with the introduction of explicit 
declspec(dllimport) decorators.  (Exception: I retained the change of 
the AM_CONDITIONAL from MINGW to WOEGCC32).  Most of the remaining 
changes in my 2005-11-27 patch are obsoleted by your reimplementation of 
those fixes (e.g. you fixed the issues a different way).

The problem is, you really need different decoration markers for each 
DLL (and it gets even more complicated in that some .c's are compiled 
twice: sometimes for libgettext[lib|src], and sometimes for direct 
linkage into an application.  (Plus, I had to modify libtool so that it, 
too, defined DLL_EXPORT when building PIC objects.  Currently that only 
happens on mingw but gettext config.h assumes it is true for both cygwin 
and mingw -- and gettext is right; libtool is wrong.  That patch will be 
headed upstream to the libtool guys for inclusion in 1.5.24 and 2.x soon).

But I've worked all that out; I'll post the patch soon -- after I apply 
it to the -pre2 tarball below and test it thoroughly (incl. 'make 
install' <g> and 'make check').

> > I get the following error in <build_dir>/gettext-tools/examples:
> >
> > *** No rule to make target `hello-c/po/af.po', needed by
> > `install-data-local'.  Stop.
>
> I now made a 0.15-pre2 tarball for you. At
> http://www.haible.de/bruno/gnu/gettext-0.15-pre2.tar.gz

Wonderful.  Thanks -- I did download the snapshot and it unpacks OK.

> > Help?  Is cvs-gettext just broken?  If so, when was the last-known-good
> > date?
>
> I underestimated the bootstrapping hassle for creating a 0.15 tarball.
> Now I did it; I had to temporarily set the version number to 0.15,
> exclude the examples directory from the build, make a tarball, use it to update
> gettext-tools/misc/archive.tar.gz, then do a "make install", then add back the
> examples directory, and then I was able to regenerate the missing .po files.
> Wheew!

Yeesh.  I don't remember it being that hard to build from CVS 
before...but I'm glad you did it and not me. :-)   How did you "turn 
off" the examples directory?  Just remove it from SUBDIRS in 
gettext-tools/Makefile.am ?

More later...

--
Chuck