[Nix-dev] About gettext and expat

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 02/04/15 18:27, Luca Bruno 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? 

Given that expat is only 300 KB, I don't see a problem.

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