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Subject: Re: Puzzled about gettext dependencies
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Il 02/10/10 13:21, Alexey Shuvaev ha scritto:

> The port autodetects the presence of these libraries and drags them in.
> Taking a closer look at this it turned out that aDe@ has dropped
> maintainership of what is referred to as 'autotools'. Not good :(
>
> What follows is just an attempt to fix the problem, however it doesn't :)
> and it seems that the port deserves more attention.
>
> A little bit more than 0.02$,
> Alexey.

Thanks Alexey.

I admit I didn't try your patch, since you said in advance it doesn't work.

I really haven't understood whether this is a bug (or feature) in 
gettext or autotools (autoconf?).

Should I fill a PR in?

  bye & Thanks
	av.