Hi Peter, Am 08.01.2011 um 14:06 schrieb Peter FELECAN: > Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]> writes: >> Am 08.01.2011 um 10:43 schrieb Peter FELECAN: >>> Ben Walton <[email protected]> writes: >>>> Excerpts from Peter FELECAN's message of Fri Jan 07 03:23:59 -0500 2011: >>>> >>>>> I think that we can use libintl without much worry; the kludgy way >>>>> that they use to alleviate a SUN libc issue will fade away when the >>>>> support for Solaris 9 is terminated. Anyway, caution is always a >>>>> good stance. >>>> >>>> I have a mostly up-to-date build description for ggettext ready to go, >>>> but I stalled it while waiting for the arbitration results. It needs >>>> a bit of testing yet too. >>>> >>>> I think this package would benefit from being built separately on sol9 >>>> and sol10 so that this issue only affects sol9. I'll try to get back >>>> to this, but if someone else wants to pick it up, most of the work is >>>> done already. >>> >>> I don't think that is necessary to have separate packages. In the code >>> that I cited in my detailed mail, you can add a run-time detection of >>> the release of Solaris on which it actually runs and act accordingly. I >>> can provide an easy patch , preferably for 0.18.1. If we validate this, >>> we can submit the patch upstream. >> >> That would be excellent!! > > Note that I'll publicly provide the patch only on request from the > person who intent to package a new gettext set based on 0.18.1 or > greater.
As Ben already did most of the work I'll of course let him the honour of submitting it :-) Of course I lend him a hand if necesssary, so you can already start patching! Best regards -- Dago _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
