Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> We can either add a configure test or say that we don't support
>> such old versions of gettext ...
> Or we could just #ifdef the whole thing to win32, since it's not
> really needed on other platforms, pushing that decision to later...
> (when that version of gettext will be even more obsolete)
That would work for the moment, but we're almost certainly going to
have to insist on bind_textdomain_codeset being available eventually;
AFAICS there's no hope of multi-locale/multi-encoding support without it.
I was considering either:
1. Add a probe for bind_textdomain_codeset to configure, and
conditionalize the new patch on HAVE_BIND_TEXTDOMAIN_CODESET.
2. Adjust the AC_SEARCH_LIBS call to probe for bind_textdomain_codeset()
instead of gettext() as it does now. This would have the effect of
rejecting pre-0.10.36 versions of the library.
Magnus' suggestion gives a third possibility.
I notice that the PGAC_CHECK_GETTEXT macro already contains the commentdnl FIXME: We should probably check for version
>=0.10.36.
So depending on what that's about, there might be some other good
reasons to go with choice #2. Peter, it appears you put that comment in
when you first added the macro, on 2001-06-02. Do you remember why?
regards, tom lane
