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Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-sh-i18n: detect and avoid broken gettext(1)
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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

>> ... At build time, instead
>> of, or in addition to, the $(cmd_munge_script), we could replace the
>> single @@GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME@@ token above with whatever scheme we want to
>> use to hardcode the decision we make at the compile time.
>
> I can imagine a Solaris system being upgraded to GNU gettext _after_ Git
> installation. Hardcoding the decision might break git scripts then.

Just like you would break http transport by removing libcurl after
installing Git? What else is new?