On Friday 06 September 2013 14:55:45 hasufell wrote:
> On 09/06/2013 08:19 PM, h.g.mul...@hccnet.nl wrote:
> > I don't think this patch would improve matters in general. It just
> > means that people that have gettext 0.17 installed now would get
> > that same error message.
> > 
> > In particular, it would mean I can no longer build XBoard myself.
> > 
> > I thought at some point we were notified that this had something to
> > do with configure forgetting to check some subdirectory (m4?), but
> > I forgot the details (because I did not understand any of it), and
> > I cannot find the relavant email.
> 
> There is no major distribution that still ships 0.17.

gettext 0.18 was released in May 2010.  giving people 4 years to upgrade 
beyond 0.17 seems reasonable.
-mike

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