autoreconf/gettext puzzle (was Re: sed match DOS end of line)

Thu Jun 27 15:51:00 GMT 2013

On 2013年06月27日 09:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Ok, here's me, even more puzzled. FIW, the 4.2.2 packages have *not*
> been built the same way as the 4.2.1 package. The difference is running
> autoreconf (4.2.2) vs. not running autoreconf (4.2.1).

Were these natively compiled or cross-compiled? The latter pulls in 
gnulib functions in place of libc's (Cygwin) without intervention during 
configure.
> If I build sed with the auto configury unchanged, I'm back to an sed
> which handles the CR just as the old sed 4.2.1 package:
>> $ sed --version | head -1
> sed (GNU sed) 4.2.2
> $ od -c eol
> 0000000 e n d o f l i n e \r \n
> 0000013
> $ sed 's/e$/X/' < eol
> endoflinX
>> However, 4.2.2-1 and 4.2.2-2 packages have been built running autoreconf
> first, which, besides other things, updates the included gettext stuff
> from version 0.17 to version 0.18.1.
>> So I'm wondering if the latest gettext is the culprit here, but I'm not
> fluent enough in the differences within gettext to see where the problem
> is.

I doubt it; as long as libintl is dynamically linked, the gettext build 
infrastructure just handles .po.mo rules.
Yaakov
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