Re: [PATCH] git-sh-i18n: detect and avoid broken gettext(1) implementation

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 20, 2012, 20:21 UTC
Message-ID: <7vfwfadt10.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CALxABCZJATyVRf9akmfpn3WpJ8Xt80Ky0isFOTwDGpFKvFp3nw@mail.gmail.com>

Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

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>> ... At build time, instead
>> of, or in addition to, the $(cmd_munge_script), we could replace the
>> single @@GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME@@ token above with whatever scheme we want to
>> use to hardcode the decision we make at the compile time.
>
> I can imagine a Solaris system being upgraded to GNU gettext _after_ Git
> installation. Hardcoding the decision might break git scripts then.

Just like you would break http transport by removing libcurl after installing Git? What else is new?

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