Re: [PATCH] Use autopoint for GLib

["Tor Lillqvist" <tml iki fi>]

It's pretty trivial to effectively disable NLS without GLib knowing by
writing a minimal dummy libintl.c (and corresponding libintl.h) and
compile it into a "fake" libintl.a, and then point the GLib configury
at those with CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS.

I did something similar mainly for Windows, but somebody told me it is
useful on MacOSX, too: a "proxy" libintl that dynamically tries to
load and use the real libintl, and falls back to nop semantics if it
isn't found. The point with this is that end-user application
packagers can then decide whether to include the real libintl binaries
in their package or not, but still use the same GLib binaries in both
cases. After all, if an app isn't localised, it doesn't make much
sense if (just) messages from GLib (or GTK+) are localised. See
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/dependencies/proxy-libintl-20080418.zip
.

--tml