Gettext-0.17

[Dan Nicholson]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Randy McMurchy
<randy at linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
> David Jensen wrote these words on 03/03/08 09:53 CST:
>
>
>  > Same versions here.
>  > The difference likely being, I don't really have Gettext-0.17 installed,
>  > thus the macros fail?
>  >
>  > At any rate, I think it should be optionally be rebuilt in BLFS.  That
>  > assumes we catch up to even 6.3.
>
>  I'm not following. Could someone summarize this as to what exactly
>  would be rebuilt in BLFS?

I don't recall all the details, but gettext-0.17 has added support for
parsing some sort of CSS file. To do this, it links with libcroco. In
LFS, the bundled versions are used, but it'd be nice to have the
system versions (of libcroco, glib and libxml2) used. This has worked
in both ways for me.

--
Dan