[Nix-dev] About gettext and expat

[Luca Bruno]

Gettext is currently depending only on libc. Gettext is an input to gcc,
so that's a very important dependency. However gtk 3.16 now requires
gettext to process xml files like glade files, and that requires xml
support via expat.
Gettext is currently compiled so that it finds expat with dlopen, but
you know that means putting evil LD_LIBRARY_PATH I'd like to avoid.

Anybody knows any drawbacks about making gettext depend on expat? If
not, I'm going to do the change for gettext 0.19 in the staging branch
during the next days.

Best regards,