Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > grrr. this weird dependency is a joke? > > any time i'm out of connection i'm not able to run autogen.sh then? > > No, you did not run my earlier message: the gettext distribution > contains a cvs _repository_ that is used in local to fetch any old > version of the gettext tools we may want! The idea is that a cvs > repository is a very compact representation of this data. No network > connection is needed.
ah, ok i didn't get it works locally. > > what exactly is the gain of this gettext patch? > > 1/ this is how gettext works now > > 2/ this allows us to change our (common) gettext version with a > switch. i still don't see the gain :) what bug it fixes? i can't remember that i needed cvs to run autogen for any package on linux. pavel
