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

[Akim Demaille]

Le 17 août 09 à 22:42, Joel E. Denny a écrit :

> 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?

If you think so, why not.  How would you phrase it?

        Fix a regression introduced in Bison 2.4.  Under some
        circumstances, translation messages were not installed
        although supported by the host system.