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Bug 115772 - gettext is not required for glib-2.2.2
gettext is not required for glib-2.2.2
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: glib
Classification: Platform
Component: general
2.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal trivial
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Assigned To: gtkdev
gtkdev
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-06-23 07:52 UTC by Dimitar Zhekov
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Dimitar Zhekov 2003-06-23 07:52:38 UTC 
The glib-2.2.2 configure script complains that gettext support is required 
for glib and produces an error if no gettext is present in the system. I 
have no gettext and so removed the error-generating code to see what'll go 
wrong, but to my surprise, glib compiled just fine and seems to work. Even 
the i18n support seems OK, at least for bg_BG, so I beleive that gettext is 
not actually a requirement for glib.

To reproduce: compile glib on a system with no gettext.
Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2003-06-23 10:08:14 UTC 
It's required *by policy* rather than anything specific
that GLib does; programs in the GNOME stack and elsewhere
that use GLib ned the capabilities of gettext; by making
it a hard requirement in GLib we simplify things for other
libraries and applications.