Hello Jeremy,
Jeremy C. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Thu, Dec 07, 2006:
> I am a long time elinks user. It is my browser of choice. Thank you for
> your great work!
Thanks for your feedback. Always encouraging!
> Is there any way to have it use the system's native gettext libraries
> instead of building and using the src/intl included with the source?
Not at the moment, and it is certainly not planned. Gettext has been
changed to integrate better with ELinks: it uses the ELinks memory
functions, has some specific wrappers etc.
There is a bugzilla entry which is currently marked WONTFIX. Pasky's
last remarks are:
Our instance of libgettext is *heavily* customized and it is
expected to get even more customized by the time, so using
system gettext routines is not really feasible.
- http://bugzilla.elinks.or.cz/show_bug.cgi?id=537
> Any patches to check for adequate gettext and use it if available?
I do not know of such patches.
> If not, would you be interested if used commonly-used autoconf to check
> this?
Patches are always welcome, but I do not really see a reason. Is gettext
really that big?
> (I also found that the Makefile system used in buildling elinks is
> different than I am used to when using autoconf configure.)
Yes, we changed to using a GNU make based build system instead of
automake, since ELinks has a lot of build-time options that caused
automake to generate huge makefiles because conditional are badly
implemented. Sad, but having a Makefile taking several megabytes of
storage is crazy.
--
Jonas Fonseca
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