Re: Bison 2.4.1: make install does not install mo files

[Joel E. Denny]

Hi all.

On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Bruno Haible wrote:

> (Paul Eggert *always* wants to be on the safe side.)

Not a bad way to be.  :-)

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Akim Demaille wrote:

> Subject: [PATCH] build: lower gettext requirements.
> 
> Bison was uselessly requiring the formatstring macros from
> gettext, which resulted in mo files not being installed on systems
> that perfectly supported Bison mo files.  Lower the requirement.
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2009-08/msg00006.html
> 
>       * configure.ac: Require need-ngettext instead of
>       need-formatstring-macros.
>       Reported by Martin Jabocs.
>       Suggested by Bruno Haible.
>       * INSTALL: Restructure.
>       (Internationalization): New.

This seems like an important user-visible fix.  Should we turn this into a 
NEWS entry?