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Date:      Thu, 30 Aug 2001 12:52:35 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Philippe CASIDY <pcasidy@casidy.com>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Which one to choose between devel/gettext and devel/gettext-devel
Message-ID:  <20010830125235.E13373@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <3B8E0CA7.4F398F69@FreeBSD.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 12:51:35PM %2B0300
References:  <200108300850.f7U8oKT54086@greatoak.home> <20010830121325.D13373@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <3B8E0CA7.4F398F69@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 12:51:35PM +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> Peter Pentchev wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:50:20AM +0200, Philippe CASIDY wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I am quite annoyed because when I want to update bonobo from 1.0.7 to
> > > 1.0.8, i need to use devel/gettext-devel.
> > >
> > > As devel/gettext and devel/gettext-devel have the same PORTNAME, i
> > > deinstalled gettext-0.10.35 (from devel/gettext) to install
> > > gettext-0.10.38 (from devel/gettext-devel) required by bonobo-1.0.8.
> > >
> > > But the problem is that gettext-0.10.38 doest not install libintl.so.1
> > > installed by gettext-0.10.35.
> > >
> > > Do I have to install gettext-0.10.38 without removing gettext-0.10.35?
[snip]
> 
> To answer the original question, yes, you
> need both these ports, because binary utilities from the old gettext can't handle some files
> from new packages, while those from the gettext-devel - some of the files from the old
> packages. Therefore ports that can't be compiled using the older gettext do some tricks to use
> binary utilities from the gettext-devel instead (see ports/misc/gnomeutils/Makefile for
> example).

Ah.  Oops.  OK, noted.

G'luck,
Peter

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