Sender: salvador AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <3B6FFAAE.88394900@inti.gov.ar> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 11:26:54 -0300 From: salvador Organization: INTI X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19 i686) X-Accept-Language: es-AR, en, es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Juan Manuel Guerrero CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: gettext port References: <37D62CF01F8 AT HRZ1 DOT hrz DOT tu-darmstadt DOT de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote: > On Mon, 06 Aug 2001, salvador wrote: > > The only way to disable the use of libiconv.a is to have not installed it at all. > More precise: the gettext configure script checks if libiconv.a is installed > on the system (if you rename $DJDIR/include/iconv.h, then the test will fail). > If the lib is found it is used and the user has no option to disable this feature. > If you want a full functional libintl.a but without the runtime recoding capability, > this would be a libintl.a like the one of gettext-0.10.35, you must rename iconv.h > or not install libiconv.a (licv17b.zip) at all. > The generated libintl.a is full functional. Ok, I'll consider it. As I already include some libraries (libz, libbzip2 and libpcre) I could also include a small gettext and allow users to configure the editor to use the shipped library instead of the installed one (optional). [snip] > This has really been a very unfortunate and misleading formulation. It was never my intention to > insinuate that all binaries compiled with libiconv.a will be bloated by a factor 10. Indeed, > I have only compared the 5 or 6 binaries from gtxt039b.zip. As Eli correctely pointed out, > the overhead is additive and no multiplicative. Ok, but 600 Kb is a lot, even for my text editor which I consider huge. SET -- Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET). (Electronics Engineer) Visit my home page: http://welcome.to/SetSoft or http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/6552/ Alternative e-mail: set-soft AT bigfoot DOT com set AT computer DOT org set AT ieee DOT org Address: Curapaligue 2124, Caseros, 3 de Febrero Buenos Aires, (1678), ARGENTINA Phone: +(5411) 4759 0013