From:	"Juan Manuel Guerrero" <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
Organization:	Darmstadt University of Technology
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Thu, 20 Apr 2000 22:43:27 +0200
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Subject:	ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Gettext 0.10.35
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This is a port of GNU Gettext 0.10.35 to MSDOS/DJGPP.

   The DJGPP specific changes are the followings:
1) The gettext function from libintl.a has been renamed to GetText.
   The function is now available as GetText and also as gettext__.
2) xgettext will recognise GetText and gettext__ as new keywords.
3) The macro gettext.m4 will check for DJGPP testing the $OSTYPE
   environment variable. If $OSTYPE is set to msdosdjgpp or MSDOS
   gettext.m4 will search for GetText instead of gettext and use
   po2tblsed.in instead of po2tbl.sed.in.
4) All other changes to the files in the src subdir concern the
   BINARY/TEXT file issue, the path separator (";" instead of ":")
   and the usual MSDOS path issue.
5) Some minor changes to the test scripts so they can be executed
   on plain DOS.
   All changes I have done against the original GNU distribution
   are documented in the diffs file stored in the DJGPP subdir of
   the source package.

   The source packages must be configured by the user because:
   1) The configure script searches for emacs.
   2) The libtool script would contain absolute paths that make
      reference to my installation tree.

   The job has been done using MSDOS 6.X.
   No configuring nor compiling nor testing on WIN9X but I think
   it will work.

   I have been using this port since 6 or 7 months and it seems to
   be stable. After the appropiate changes to the sources, I have
   recompiled all v2gnu packages that offers NLS without any trouble.
   
   
   Suggestions, objections, etc. are welcome.

   Regards,
   Guerrero, Juan Manuel

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