Re: gettext

[Bruno Haible]

Stepan Kasal writes:
> Now I understand that gettext is violating GCS

I understand your point of view; however:

* The feature that you and Russ Allbery request cannot be implemented
  on HP-UX, AIX and SunOS 4,

* For other platforms, in particular Linux, it is implementable,
  under two forms: "make install DESTDIR=..." and "make install prefix=...".
  These two forms are equivalent, as you demonstrated through

     ln -s /afs/.example.com /tmp/destdir/afs/example.com

  Upon popular demand, I've hacked support for the first one into
  the copy of libtool used in gettext. It's useless to ask for the
  second form when the first form is already implemented.

> Would you please implement this?

I've hacked libtool enough. Ask the libtool people.

Bruno