Re: glib compiled without gettext?

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Xavier Roche <roche exalead com> writes:


> I was wondering glib was designed to work even without gettext
> support?  The glib's configure script (tested release: 2.2.0)
> refused to compile without gettext support.

AFAIK, this is not the case. GLib requires gettext and applications
depending on GLib may safely assume that it is available.

> What is strange is that the script is able to detect that there is no
> gettext support, and can properly define the line in config.h:
> /* always defined to indicate that i18n is enabled */
> /* #undef ENABLE_NLS */

This is a relict from earlier times when --disable-nls was supported.


Salut, Sven