Re: autoreconf/gettext puzzle (was Re: sed match DOS end of line)

["Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>]

On 2013-06-27 09:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Ok, here's me, even more puzzled.  FIW, the 4.2.2 packages have *not*
> been built the same way as the 4.2.1 package.  The difference is running
> autoreconf (4.2.2) vs. not running autoreconf (4.2.1).

Were these natively compiled or cross-compiled?  The latter pulls in 
gnulib functions in place of libc's (Cygwin) without intervention during 
configure.

> If I build sed with the auto configury unchanged, I'm back to an sed
> which handles the CR just as the old sed 4.2.1 package:
>
>    $ sed --version | head -1
>    sed (GNU sed) 4.2.2
>    $ od -c eol
>    0000000   e   n   d   o   f   l   i   n   e  \r  \n
>    0000013
>    $ sed 's/e$/X/' < eol
>    endoflinX
>
> However, 4.2.2-1 and 4.2.2-2 packages have been built running autoreconf
> first, which, besides other things, updates the included gettext stuff
> from version 0.17 to version 0.18.1.
>
> So I'm wondering if the latest gettext is the culprit here, but I'm not
> fluent enough in the differences within gettext to see where the problem
> is.

I doubt it; as long as libintl is dynamically linked, the gettext build 
infrastructure just handles .po.mo rules.


Yaakov


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