On 09/07/2013 12:24 AM, h.g.mul...@hccnet.nl wrote: > Well, my Ubuntu 10.04 still has gettext 0.17, and attemps to install > Ubuntu 12.04 so far only resulted in crashing of VirtualBox. I am not to > keen on upgrading anyway; I still regret the day I upgraded from 8.04 to > 10.04 on my laptop, because half of it doesn't function anymore since I > did (stuttering sound, and no USB). The higher the version, the more > crappy these things seem to get.
that's strange... up to now my computers always ran better with a newer version than with an old one... > It seems furthermore strange that we would have to REQUIRE 0.18 in the > configure while in fact XBoard would compile perfectly with 0.17 if you > have that installed. This cannot be a proper solution. The entire purpose > of 'configure' is to figure out WHAT you have installed, and use that if > it can do the job. > > So it seems to me that this is a bug in autoconf or the data we feed it, > and that requiring a higher version number is just a work-around. I would > like to see a patch for a proper solution, that can use both gettext 0.17 > and 0.18 depending on which happens to be installed. not sure, if there is a good way of handling this... unfortunately I don't have the time to look into it at the moment, but if someone knows how this could be done, I'm all for it. Arun _______________________________________________ Bug-XBoard mailing list Bug-XBoard@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard
