Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 06:59:08 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT delorie DOT com>
To: "Juan Manuel Guerrero" <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Gettext 0.10.35
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> From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero" <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 23:11:03 +0200
>
> > If the problem is with gettext from conio.c, then I think this problem
> > could be solved with less radical means.
> 
> That is the reason. If you can show me a less radical solution it will be
> seriously appreciated.
> Unfortunately gettext.m4 always searches for gettext() in libc.a first.
> For DJGPP this implies that gettext() defined in conio.h will be found
> first. Of course this is the wrong gettext().

The right solution would be to modify gettext.m4 test so that it fails
for DJGPP's own gettext.  The easiest way to do that is to include
conio.h; I expect this to cause GCC to fail the compilation due to
different prototypes.  (To be portable, this test will have to be
preceded by an additional one, that checks whether conio.h is
available.)  I would suggest to submit such a change to gettext
maintainer.

However, the gettext maintainer does not have any sympathies for the
DJGPP project, to say the least, so I'm not holding my breath for the
inclusion of such a change.  In any case, it will take time to get
that change propagated through the other GNU packages.

Therefore, I suggest a simpler band-aid in the meantime: force the
configure script to fail that specific test, by including something
like this in an appropriate file:

  nls_cv_force_use_gnu_gettext=yes

The files where this could go are either the local config.site file,
or the global config.site distributed with Bash.

Another possibility would be to configure the packages with the
option --with-included-gettext.

> 1) Renaming gettext() to GetText(). Now the search for GetText() in libc.a
>    will fail and GetText() will be searched and found in libintl.a.

The problem is that gettext in conio is a compatibility function,
modeled after its Borland's namesake.

> Emacs, nm and ld can be defined in config.site. I realized this to late.

Why ``too late''?  You can change this and upload a new beta.  No harm
was done.