On May 21, 2009, at 02:26, [email protected] wrote:

+depends_build       port:pkgconfig \
+                    port:intltool \
+                    port:gettext \
+                    port:p5-xml-parser \
+                    port:gtk-doc

I've seen other ports list gettext as a build dependency, but I've always wondered what kind of software would want to use gettext at build time but not at runtime? How does that work? It is a localization system, and the way it's usually used is to compile text message catalogs into a binary form at build time, and to link with the libintl library, and at runtime to use libintl to load those message catalogs and pull translations out of them.

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