From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 22:10:26 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/gettext-tiny: Add new package In-Reply-To: References: <20180821142226.2309-1-vadim4j@gmail.com> <87r2irvljb.fsf@tkos.co.il> <20180821172913.1a7eb830@windsurf> <20180821193616.5634b4dc@windsurf> Message-ID: <20180821221026.4fec5cf2@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello Vadim, On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 23:07:59 +0300, Vadim Kochan wrote: > > - There are a few packages that unconditionally need host-gettext. Is > > this really true ? > Not sure about this) In this situation, we have: - aumix - host-guile - host-intltool (perhaps legit ?) - host-libglib2 - libv4l (for AM_ICONV m4 macro) - linphone - mediastreamer - host-mono - sysstat (which also uses TARGET_NLS_DEPENDENCIES... weird) - tvheadend - host-wine - xkeyboard-config - zbar (for AM_ICONV m4 macro) > > - Some packages need host-gettext because of the AM_ICONV m4 macro > > provided by gettext.m4. Is gettext-tiny also providing the > > gettext-related m4 macros ? > Yes it has some set of m4 macrosses, but it needs to be tested how it > works for the buildroot. > > What if I will start from converting gettext package into the virtual > one (with renaming the original > gettext -> gettext-gnu) ? And after I will try to add gettext-tiny as > gettext provider. Looks OK to me. I think the choice between gettext and gettext-tiny is really a top-level decision, so it probably belongs near the "Enable Native Language Support (NLS)" option in "System configuration". Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons) Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com