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[RFC PATCH 1/7] Documentation: update INSTALL for NetBSD

From
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 25, 2018, 11:06 UTC
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NetBSD added a BSD licensed reimplementation of GNU libintl to its base at least since release 4.0 (mid 2012) and git can be configured to build with it.

Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
---
 INSTALL | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index c39006e8e7..100718989f 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -154,11 +154,11 @@ Issues of note:
 	  git-gui, you can use NO_TCLTK.
 
 	- A gettext library is used by default for localizing Git. The
-	  primary target is GNU libintl, but the Solaris gettext
-	  implementation also works.
+	  primary target is GNU libintl, but the Solaris and NetBSD gettext
+	  implementations also work.
 
 	  We need a gettext.h on the system for C code, gettext.sh (or
-	  Solaris gettext(1)) for shell scripts, and libintl-perl for Perl
+	  gettext(1) utility) for shell scripts, and libintl-perl for Perl
 	  programs.
 
 	  Set NO_GETTEXT to disable localization support and make Git only
-- 
2.20.0.rc1
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Message 2 of 16 in “test: NetBSD support”
  1. 0/7 test: NetBSD supportCarlo Marcelo Arenas Belón, Nov 25, 2018
  2. 1/7 Documentation: update INSTALL for NetBSDCarlo Marcelo Arenas Belón, Nov 25, 2018
  3. Junio C HamanoNov 26, 2018
  4. 2/7 t0301: remove trailing / for dir creationCarlo Marcelo Arenas Belón, Nov 25, 2018
  5. Junio C HamanoNov 26, 2018
  6. 3/7 config.mak.uname: NetBSD uses BSD semantics with fread for directoriesCarlo Marcelo Arenas Belón, Nov 25, 2018
  7. Junio C HamanoNov 26, 2018
  8. 4/7 config.mak.uname: NetBSD uses old iconv interfaceCarlo Marcelo Arenas Belón, Nov 25, 2018
  9. Junio C HamanoNov 26, 2018
  10. 5/7 test-lib: use pkgsrc provided unzip for NetBSDCarlo Marcelo Arenas Belón, Nov 25, 2018
  11. Junio C HamanoNov 26, 2018
  12. 6/7 t5004: use GNU tar to avoid known issues with BSD tarCarlo Marcelo Arenas Belón, Nov 25, 2018
  13. Junio C HamanoNov 26, 2018
  14. 7/7 config.mak.uname: use pkgsrc perl for NetBSDCarlo Marcelo Arenas Belón, Nov 25, 2018
  15. Junio C HamanoNov 26, 2018
  16. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonNov 26, 2018

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