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Message-ID: <20150514164333.GA1667@euler> Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 18:43:34 +0200 From: Felix Janda <felix.janda@...teo.de> To: musl@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: Re: libintl: stubs or working functions On Thu, Apr 16, 2015, Rich Felker wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 07:15:51PM +0200, Felix Janda wrote: > > As I understand applications need to pass 'need-formatstring-macros' to > > the AM_GNU_GETTEXT macro to request this functionality. But with debian > > code search I couldn't find any program doing that... > > OK. AFAIK it's only GNU software like coreutils using this > functionality. > > > The macro distinguishes three gettext apis. gt_api_version is 1 for the > > basic version. For the ngettext functions gt_api_version>=2 is necessary > > and for these "SYSDEP strings" gt_api_version>=3 is necessary. > > > > As I understand musl has gt_api_version=2. Is that right? > > Based on your understanding of the versions, yes, that sounds right. > > > To test for the api version AM_GNU_GETTEXT checks in all cases for > > bindtextdomain, gettext, _nl_msg_cat_cntr and _nl_domain_bindings. For > > gt_api_version>=2 it checks for ngettext and for gt_api_version>=3 it > > does something with __GNU_GETTEXT_SUPPORTED_REVISION we won't need to > > care about. > > > > So for musl the test gives obviously the wrong result. > > > > I guess that we don't want to export symbols _nl_*. > > > > What I would now like to ask upstream is to put the _nl_* stuff behind > > an #ifdef __GLIBC__ ... > > I think we should ask why they're doing it. It sounds to me like they > should just be checking for the APIs they want to use. Thanks for your advice. I've sent something [1] to their mailing list a while ago but got no reply so far. It might be difficult to find a cross-compile friendly test for the API. Felix [1]: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2015-04/msg00002.html
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