Re: [coreutils] [PATCH] maint: allow gettext 0.17 again

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:
> Commit 041c9c47 traded the 'gettext' module for the lighter 'gettext-h'
> module, so as to not require the latest gettext release (we only need
> the latest release if we ship gettext as a dependent library, but
> coreutils has long preferred to use it as an external library).
> But that commit overlooked two places necessary to allow the use of
> gettext 0.17.

IMHO, we should do our best to make 0.18 work as a build-from-clone
(not build from tarball) condition.
However, since you say that 0.18.x still does not build on cygwin,
relaxing that requirement to 0.17 makes it easier for more than a
few people to build coreutils, and I won't object.

> * bootstrap.conf (buildreq): Relax prerequisite.
> * configure.ac (AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION): Likewise.
> ---
>
> I need this patch in order to bootstrap on cygwin (at the moment, all
> versions of gettext 0.18 are unbuildable on cygwin, due to problems
> between gcc's need for implicit symbol imports from libgcc1
> vs. Bruno's explicit avoidance of implicit symbols in gettext).

I confirmed that this works for me, with 0.18.1,
so you're welcome to push it.