2009/12/7 Greg Smith <g...@2ndquadrant.com>:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>
>> Our instalation chapter (15.2) has a link to
>> http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/bsd-gettext/ to get gettext on
>> "other systems". this link is broken. Can somebody provide a proper
>> one, or should we remove it?
>>
>
> Goals of his version described at 
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2001-05/msg01114.php lest anyone 
> wonder why there was a personal port here (I know I did).  The version most 
> like that available now would be the ones listed at 
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/devel/gettext/README.html
>
> The only popular platform I'm aware of that doesn't include it nowadays is OS 
> X:  
> http://blog.doughellmann.com/2009/06/installing-gnu-gettext-for-use-with.html
> which does mean the need to install your own hasn't completely gone away.
>
> Looks like all the various free BSDs are using GNU gettext now; that's what I 
> found in the NetBSD link above, and at 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/gettext/  Even Solaris aims 
> to be compatible with the GNU version as of 2004.
>
> I think http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ is the appropriate new link 
> destination.

Seems reasonable, thanks for the investigation!

Change applied.

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