Mailing-List: contact cygwin-announce-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-announce-owner AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-announce AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: moderator for cygwin-announce AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3F55711C.3060400@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 00:42:04 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-announce AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Updated: gettext, gettext-devel, libintl2, libgettextpo0 -0.12.1-3 [Requires cygwin-1.5.3+] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit gettext is the GNU package which provides 'national language support' for other programs. It includes a number of utility programs. These should be upgraded together with the libiconv packages. This release is built against the cygwin-1.5.x kernel; it will not work with 1.3.22. libiconv-1.9.1-3 libiconv2-1.9.1-3 libcharset1-1.9.1-3 gettext-0.12.1-3 gettext-devel-0.12.1-3 libintl2-0.12.1-3 libgettextpo0-0.12.1-3 (*) (*) new library package -- gettext-devel now depends on it. CHANGES: * Both libiconv and gettext packages were COMPLETELY reorganized between (libiconv: 1.8 -> 1.9.1, gettext: 0.11.5 -> 0.12.1). * compiled against cygwin-1.5.2 kernel * documentation moved to /usr/share/* * tools now linked against non-public shared libraries cyggettextsrc-0-12-1 and cyggettextlib-0-12-1. See NOTES, below. -- Charles Wilson gettext volunteer maintainer for cygwin To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain DOT com AT cygwin DOT com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at the above URL. -------------------------------------------------- NOTES: Now that libtool doesn't relink forever, we use cyggettextlib-0-12-1.dll and cyggettextsrc-0-12-1.dll. Now, the odd thing about this is, cyggettext*-0-12-1 are PRIVATE libraries. Their version number will change with every new release, but since nobody (outside of this package) is allowed to use them, there's no need to worry about backwards compatibility and keeping old versions around and -- you would think -- no need to put them into their own package. BUT. cyggettextpo-0.dll provides the PUBLIC interface to those two private libraries, to which you can link via the libgettextpo.dll.a import library. Thus, external packages might depend on cyggettextpo-0.dll (which in turn depends on cyggettextlib-X-Y-Z and cyggettextsrc-X-Y-Z, but they don't know that). Thus, cyggettextpo-0.dll needs to be in its own package -- AND cyggettextsrc-X-Y-Z.dll / cyggettextlib-X-Y-Z.dll need to be with it. Thus, later versions of gettextpo will look like this: libgettextpo0 (first) cyggettextpo-0.dll cyggettextsrc-0-12-1.dll cyggettextlib-0-12-1.dll libgettextpo0 (next, but public interface gettextpo hasn't changed) cyggettextpo-0.dll cyggettextsrc-0-12-2.dll cyggettextlib-0-12-2.dll etc. External packages keep seeing cyggettextpo-0.dll, but behind the scenes the private library versions keep changing. But they MUST be distributed together with the public lib, or the whole thing breaks. So, all three libs go into the new libgettextpo0 package. (And naturally, if the public API changes, then that package name will get version-bumped to libgettextpo1, etc)