Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Basic i18n (Internationalization)

[Juan Toledo <toledo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:05:50PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> > Ok. I've added the i18n infrastructure,
> 
> After applying the patch:
> 
> 	tooting$ make 2>&1 | tee errs
> 	cd . && aclocal `./aclocal-flags`
> 	aclocal: configure.in: 39: macro `AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library
> 
> It appears the changes require that the system have GNU "gettext"
> installed on it; that's not necessarily going to be the case.

It requires that a _developer_ rebuilding the configure file has gettext
installed. The user that receives the tar.gz distribution doesn't have to
have gettext installed.

Is it such a big requirement? It is the same case with automake, that a
developer has to have installed, but not the user.

Regards,
Juan.

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