Re: Building Make out of Git: Gettext requirements

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:02:43 -0400
> 
> I believe this is only a problem building from git.  If you build from a
> distribution tarball then you don't need to have any particular version
> of gettext installed.  For developers who build from git, they do need
> to have certain versions of tools installed.
> 
> However, if we build our distribution tarball with an older version of
> gettext, then the resulting tarball distribution doesn't work correctly
> in this situation.
> 
> Upgrading gettext is usually pretty simple, and this release is almost 3
> years old.

Fine, I can continue hacking configure.ac in the future as well.