[csw-maintainers] [ITP] gdb 7.2

[Peter FELECAN]

Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:
> Am 08.01.2011 um 10:43 schrieb Peter FELECAN:
>> Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> writes:
>>> Excerpts from Peter FELECAN's message of Fri Jan 07 03:23:59 -0500 2011:
>>> 
>>>> I think that we can use libintl without much worry; the kludgy way
>>>> that they use to alleviate a SUN libc issue will fade away when the
>>>> support for Solaris 9 is terminated. Anyway, caution is always a
>>>> good stance.
>>> 
>>> I have a mostly up-to-date build description for ggettext ready to go,
>>> but I stalled it while waiting for the arbitration results.  It needs
>>> a bit of testing yet too.
>>> 
>>> I think this package would benefit from being built separately on sol9
>>> and sol10 so that this issue only affects sol9.  I'll try to get back
>>> to this, but if someone else wants to pick it up, most of the work is
>>> done already.
>> 
>> I don't think that is necessary to have separate packages. In the code
>> that I cited in my detailed mail, you can add a run-time detection of
>> the release of Solaris on which it actually runs and act accordingly. I
>> can provide an easy patch , preferably for 0.18.1. If we validate this,
>> we can submit the patch upstream.
>
> That would be excellent!!

Note that I'll publicly provide the patch only on request from the
person who intent to package a new gettext set based on 0.18.1 or
greater.
-- 
Peter