glibc 2.2.4 may be broken

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Sun Jul 29 12:06:00 GMT 2001


Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr> writes:

> You are likely doing this on a glibc-2.1 machine. gettext 0.10.37
> triggers an iconv bug there, when the last character in a msgstr is
> non-ASCII. It is worked around in gettext 0.10.38 and newer.

I don't know what problem that could be but I assume it is gone and
therefore requiring a new gettext in new glibc versions is not
necessary and the older ones will still work.

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