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

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 20, 2012, 20:24 UTC
Message-ID: <CALxABCZnz-8BuXf=-HrH7UZXi6pQ3VzL4HrOKgKHqWwUMnwJQA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vfwfadt10.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 21:21, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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

Removing - yes, upgrading it - very unlikely. Besides, the current version wont have problems with such an upgrade.