requirement on gettext

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Ben Elliston <bje@redhat.com> writes:

> >>>>> "Ulrich" == Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
> 
>   >> As an aside, .gmo files are derived objects and should be placed in
>   >> the build directory and not the source directory.  Is a patch along
>   >> these lines (one for each of the tool directories) acceptable?
> 
>   Ulrich> The .gmo files are meant to be distributed.
> 
> As I suspected!  I wonder, then, why are they not?

They are distributed in the snapshots, aren't they?  They should also
be distributed in releases.

However, they are not in CVS.  Maintainers who use CVS must have the
msgfmt program.

Or we could put them in CVS, and have them rebuilt if you configure
with --enable-maintainer-mode.

Ian