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RE: Confused by gettext on cygwin
- To: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>,"Linus Tolke Y" <linus at lysator dot liu dot se>
- Subject: RE: Confused by gettext on cygwin
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 11:25:04 +1000
- Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles S. Wilson [mailto:cwilson@ece.gatech.edu]
> copy the "linux" or "official" gettext.h into
> /usr/share/gettext/intl on
> your cygwin system. In fact, that may not be a bad idea in
> ALL cases,
> because if somebody builds your package on cygwin and DOESN't specify
> --with-included-gettext, then the build will use the
> /usr/include/gettext.h and /usr/lib/libintl.a -- so no problems: your
> "official" gettextized gettext.h won't even get used in that case.
>
> Hmmm...perhaps the cygwin gettext package should put the official
> gettext.h into /usr/share/gettext/intl, and only use the modified,
> DLL-supporting gettext.h for /usr/include...
>
Won't that fail to link? (ld finds the .dll not the static archive?)
Rob
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