[oe] DEPENDS="gettext" vs. DEPENDS="virtual/libintl"

[Geoffrey Wossum]

On Saturday 07 June 2008 12:31:54 pm Geoffrey Wossum wrote:
> On Friday 06 June 2008 05:24:50 pm Henning Heinold wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 05:06:11PM -0500, Geoffrey Wossum wrote:
> > > I'm working on exorcizing gettext as a requirement for building OE.
> > > Since glib-2.0 absolutely has to have libintl, I've found an alternate
> > > way of providing.  uClibc's libintl stub has a pretty bad case of
> > > bitrot, but I found proxy-libintl, which was written to get GNOME onto
> > > Windows. By setting proxy-libintl up as the PREFERRED_PROVIDER for
> > > virtual/libintl, I can get past glib-2.0 now.

It works!  I got rid of gettext.  It didn't fix all my problems, but it fixed 
crashes with aplay and Xfbdev.  avahi still crashes, must be a separate 
issue...

Submitted patches for this as bug #4370:
http://bugs.openembedded.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4370

You'll need to add PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/libintl = "proxy-libintl" and 
USE_NLS = "no" (if you didn't already have it from somewhere like 
angstrom-uclibc.inc) to actually make use of proxy-libintl.

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Geoffrey