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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:13:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Charles Wilson <cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm>
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Subject: Re: No libintl.jar in gettext-0.14.1-1
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On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Charles Wilson wrote:

> daniel DOT steinmann AT XXX DOT XXX wrote:

Cough.

> > The document /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/gettext-0.14.1.README tells me it
> > should be around. Are there any reasons why this jar is not available in
> > 0.14.1?
>
> Yep.  It barely worked in 0.12.x, by dint of some kludgy wrapper scripts
> around Sun's jdk javac.  In 0.14.1, my kludgy scripts didn't work, mainly
> because Bruno changes the gettext build process on <comicbookguyvoice> Every.
> Single. MicroRelease.
>
> Since java use on cygwin is fairly limited, I released the "rest" of 0.14.1
> instead.  It's been almost a year now and yours is the first complaint, so
> that was apparently the correct decision.
>
> But I forgot to update the docu.
>
> I'll make another stab at the java gettext support on a future release; with
> gcj coming along, I may, at that future date, be able to build it with
> all-cygwin tools instead of using silly wrappers around native tools -- which
> would be a lot easier.

Chuck,

Any reason why it doesn't make sense to use the wrappers from
<http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/wrappers/java/?cvsroot=cygwin-apps>?
Or are those the wrappers you talked about?
	Igor
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