Re: RFD: gettext, iconv, packaging...

2002-06-22 Thread Charles Wilson
Charles Wilson wrote: Corinna Vinschen wrote: If only these two tools are using cyggettext*.dll and the other one, why not linking statically against them? I don't see a reason to have dlls hanging around for that purpose. No, you got it backwards. There are only two programs --

Re: RFD: gettext, iconv, packaging...

2002-06-18 Thread Charles Wilson
FYI, the new gettext package is NOT imminent. There are some variables exported from cyggettext*.dll to the msg*.exe programs that are not auto-importable. (direct access to elements in an array of structs). So, I need to muck with the code some -- and add accessor functions or something.

Re: RFD: gettext, iconv, packaging...

2002-06-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 02:25:59PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: FYI, the new gettext package is NOT imminent. There are some variables exported from cyggettext*.dll to the msg*.exe programs that are not auto-importable. (direct access to elements in an array of structs). So, I need to

Re: RFD: gettext, iconv, packaging...

2002-06-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Corinna Vinschen wrote: If only these two tools are using cyggettext*.dll and the other one, why not linking statically against them? I don't see a reason to have dlls hanging around for that purpose. No, you got it backwards. There are only two programs -- the two MAIN programs

Re: RFD: gettext, iconv, packaging...

2002-06-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Nicholas Wourms wrote: Is xgettext.exe included or has that been phased out? xgettext.exe is considered one of the development oriented tools, not end user tools. So it's in the gettext-tools package (which I'm calling gettext-devel). --Chuck

Re: RFD: gettext, iconv, packaging...

2002-06-18 Thread Charles Wilson
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: :-) Great. Well, I don't like the part about 'whining', but all the rest is great. Ok. I'll take the two packages if no one steps on my toes now... Cool. I didn't mean that you, in particular, *must* take these two packages or I won't do libiconv. It's just