+2023-06-18 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+ gettext: Clarify the purpose of this module.
+ Suggested by Paul Eggert in
+ <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2023-06/msg00089.html>.
+ * modules/gettext (Description): Clarify the purpose.
+ (Makefile.am): Remove outdated comment. "gettextize --intl" is no longer
+ possible since 2019.
+
2023-06-18 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Update \(en in copyright notices
Description:
Translate messages to user's native language.
+The purpose of this module is:
+ - So that gnulib testdirs include i18n support and thus expose possible
+ link errors on non-glibc platforms. We want to detect such link
+ errors from within gnulib and fix them by adding $(LIBINTL) to
+ various <program>_LDADD variables.
+ - As a prototype if/when we someday unify gnulib-tool, libtoolize, and
+ gettextize in a single tool.
+
Status:
obsolete
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.22])
Makefile.am:
-# If your project uses "gettextize --intl" to put a source-code
-# copy of libintl into the package, every Makefile.am needs
-# -I$(top_builddir)/intl, so that <libintl.h> can be found in this directory.
-# Here's one way to do this:
-#AM_CPPFLAGS += -I$(top_builddir)/intl
-# This option has no effect when the user disables NLS (because then
-# the intl directory contains no libintl.h file). This option is not
-# enabled by default because the intl directory might not exist if
-# your project does not use "gettext --intl", and some compilers
-# complain about -I options applied to nonexistent directories.
Include:
"gettext.h"