Re: Install chapter broken link - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Install chapter broken link
Date
Msg-id 9837222c0912081123v2fec252erdd52ebcb3814c12f@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Install chapter broken link  (Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
2009/12/7 Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>
>> Our instalation chapter (15.2) has a link to
>> http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/bsd-gettext/ to get gettext on
>> "other systems". this link is broken. Can somebody provide a proper
>> one, or should we remove it?
>>
>
> Goals of his version described at http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2001-05/msg01114.php lest anyone
wonderwhy there was a personal port here (I know I did).  The version most like that available now would be the ones
listedat ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/devel/gettext/README.html 
>
> The only popular platform I'm aware of that doesn't include it nowadays is OS X:
 http://blog.doughellmann.com/2009/06/installing-gnu-gettext-for-use-with.html
> which does mean the need to install your own hasn't completely gone away.
>
> Looks like all the various free BSDs are using GNU gettext now; that's what I found in the NetBSD link above, and at
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/gettext/ Even Solaris aims to be compatible with the GNU version as
of2004. 
>
> I think http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ is the appropriate new link destination.

Seems reasonable, thanks for the investigation!

Change applied.

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