[csw-maintainers] [ITP] gdb 7.2

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Peter,

Am 08.01.2011 um 14:06 schrieb 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.

As Ben already did most of the work I'll of course let him the honour
of submitting it :-) Of course I lend him a hand if necesssary, so
you can already start patching!


Best regards

  -- Dago