Re: [PATCH] gnu: gettext: Enable "xgettext --language=glade"

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

>       `(#:phases (alist-cons-before
> +                 'configure 'link-expat
> +                 (lambda _
> +                   (substitute* "gettext-tools/configure"
> +                     (("LIBEXPAT=\"-ldl\"") "LIBEXPAT=\"-ldl -lexpat\"")
> +                     (("LTLIBEXPAT=\"-ldl\"") "LTLIBEXPAT=\"-ldl 
> -lexpat\"")))

Actually, it seems to be solvable without adding the dependency:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ xgettext -L glade /dev/null 
xgettext: Language "glade" is not supported. xgettext relies on expat.
          This version was built without expat.

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(guix build expat)/lib xgettext -L glade /dev/null 
xgettext: /dev/null:1:1: no element found
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

(The error message is misleading because it’s not a build-time issue.)

Would it work for you to just use that LD_LIBRARY_PATH trick where it’s
needed?

That way we avoid making gettext “fatter”.  I suppose we’ll seldom need
to do that trick anyway.

WDYT?

Ludo’.