[elinks-dev] use native libintl/gettext?

[Jonas Fonseca]

Hello Jeremy,

Jeremy C. Reed <reed at reedmedia.net> wrote Thu, Dec 07, 2006:
> I am a long time elinks user. It is my browser of choice. Thank you for 
> your great work!

Thanks for your feedback. Always encouraging!

> Is there any way to have it use the system's native gettext libraries 
> instead of building and using the src/intl included with the source?

Not at the moment, and it is certainly not planned. Gettext has been
changed to integrate better with ELinks: it uses the ELinks memory
functions, has some specific wrappers etc.

There is a bugzilla entry which is currently marked WONTFIX. Pasky's
last remarks are:

	Our instance of libgettext is *heavily* customized and it is
	expected to get even more customized by the time, so using
	system gettext routines is not really feasible.

 - http://bugzilla.elinks.or.cz/show_bug.cgi?id=537

> Any patches to check for adequate gettext and use it if available?

I do not know of such patches.

> If not, would you be interested if used commonly-used autoconf to check 
> this?

Patches are always welcome, but I do not really see a reason. Is gettext
really that big?

> (I also found that the Makefile system used in buildling elinks is 
> different than I am used to when using autoconf configure.)

Yes, we changed to using a GNU make based build system instead of
automake, since ELinks has a lot of build-time options that caused
automake to generate huge makefiles because conditional are badly
implemented. Sad, but having a Makefile taking several megabytes of
storage is crazy.

-- 
Jonas Fonseca