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From: Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
Message-Id: <200311171719.hAHHJATn003736@skeeve.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: configure misery
In-Reply-To: <200311171631.hAHGVToY025874@localhost.localdomain>
References: <20031117144214.B15012@cackle.proxima.alt.za>
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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:19:10 +0200
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In article <200311171631.hAHGVToY025874@localhost.localdomain> you write:
>What I really want to comment on is the sentence ``since gawk ships
>with a copy of the gettext library, use the one in the source distribution
>if it can't find one on the system.''

All the world doesn't come with gettext. Think Irix, Tru64, HP-UX.  The
Solaris implementation is poor.  It is for that reason that gawk ships
with its own, although in the next release this will probably change.

Arnold