[Fink-devel] Do library packages have to have shared libraries?

2008-08-24 Thread Matthias Ringwald
Hi I've had a look at the libar package in the package tracker (a lib to handle tar files) https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=414256&aid=2046989&group_id=17203 The original package does not use libtool and only builds static libraries. I remember trying to submit a static l

Re: [Fink-devel] Do library packages have to have shared libraries?

2008-08-24 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Aug 24, 2008, at 7:37 AM, Matthias Ringwald wrote: > > Hi > > I've had a look at the libar package in the package tracker (a lib to > handle tar files) > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=414256&aid=2046989&group_id=17203 > > The original package does not use libtool and only b

Re: [Fink-devel] upgrading gettext to 0.17

2008-08-24 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Aug 23, 2008, at 8:29 PM, Jesse Alama wrote: > I've got a package (wesnoth) that requires a newer gettext than what > we've got. As it stands now, our msgfmt fails when generating some > new > localization message files. Any chance of uprading to, say, version > 0.17? (That version has be

Re: [Fink-devel] upgrading gettext to 0.17

2008-08-24 Thread Jesse Alama
Alexander Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Aug 23, 2008, at 8:29 PM, Jesse Alama wrote: > >> I've got a package (wesnoth) that requires a newer gettext than what >> we've got. As it stands now, our msgfmt fails when generating some >> new >> localization message files. Any chance of upr

Re: [Fink-devel] upgrading gettext to 0.17

2008-08-24 Thread Benjamin Reed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jesse Alama wrote: | What's the prognosis? What would go wrong if we just updated to 0.17? | (I acknowledge that there's an issue with gettext, but I confess to not | really appreciating the nature and scope of the problem.) I had at one point looke