Re: MacOS X 10.7 and gettext

2011-10-05 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Bruno, On 5 Oct 2011, at 03:01, Bruno Haible wrote: Jim Meyering wrote: I don't see why everyone should accept an older version just because a build-glitch affects one type of system. The work-around is trivial. Additionally, the normal way to install packages, for people who are not

Re: MacOS X 10.7 and gettext

2011-10-05 Thread Bruno Haible
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: the normal way to install packages, for people who are not used to fiddling with source code, is through MacPorts, and MacPorts carries gettext 0.18.1.1 with the fix. Actually MacPorts is not that widely used anymore, most people have long since migrated to

Re: MacOS X 10.7 and gettext

2011-10-05 Thread Peter O'Gorman
On 10/05/2011 06:54 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: Interestingly, while MacOS X 10.7 was released on 2011-07-20, the stpncpy glitch was - fixed in MacPorts on 2010-08-13 (these people must have access to prereleases of MacOS X or its libc), This was fixed in MacPorts by Jeremy Huddleston,

Re: MacOS X 10.7 and gettext

2011-10-05 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Bruno, On 5 Oct 2011, at 18:54, Bruno Haible wrote: Gary V. Vaughan wrote: the normal way to install packages, for people who are not used to fiddling with source code, is through MacPorts, and MacPorts carries gettext 0.18.1.1 with the fix. Actually MacPorts is not that widely used

Re: MacOS X 10.7 and gettext

2011-10-04 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim Meyering wrote: I don't see why everyone should accept an older version just because a build-glitch affects one type of system. The work-around is trivial. Additionally, the normal way to install packages, for people who are not used to fiddling with source code, is through MacPorts, and