[RFA/RFC] disable-nls if msgfmt could not be found

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Joel Brobecker wrote:

> Instead of adding the checks in each subdir, I thought that it might be
> better to do the check for msgfmt in the toplevel configure, and pass
> --disable-nls to the subdir configure commands if not found. The

--disable-nls disables the *use* of compiled message catalogs, not just
their generation; GCC releases include the compiled message catalogs so
that users can get an NLS-enabled compiler whether or not they have msgfmt
installed.

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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk