From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Mar 12 7:48:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from pr0n.kutulu.org (pr0n.kutulu.org [151.196.107.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7746937B6F1 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 07:48:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by pr0n.kutulu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2AC6D1EE; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:56:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:56:11 -0500 From: Kutulu To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gettext vs gettext-devel Message-ID: <20020312105611.B11787@pr0n.kutulu.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20020310034141.GA16921@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <1015751079.509.9.camel@notebook> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from naddy@mips.inka.de on Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 03:09:42PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 03:09:42PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > No, we can't use only one, because some ports only work with older one, > > while some only with newer one, therefore we need both to make everyone > > happy. > > What are the problems? > FWIW, I know that during my many attemps to build GNOME from the meta port, I was forced to cd into some sub-ports po directory and specifically run the old version of msgfmt against some message catalog, as the -new version that ran by default was failing. gettext is not something I've wrapped myself around yet, so I don't know how trivially easy those problems would be to fix, but I would think that if they were trivial they would have been fixed already? --K To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message