[Nix-dev] About gettext and expat

[Luca Bruno]

Yes of course, after all it's only used at build time.

Il giovedì 2 aprile 2015, Daniel Peebles <pumpkingod at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Could we just have a couple of derivations? One gettext that depends on
> expat that gtk can use, and one minimal one for the common case?
>
>
>
> > On Apr 2, 2015, at 12:27, Luca Bruno <lethalman88 at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
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