Bug 122467

Summary: <gettext-po.h>, libgettextpo.so* not packaged
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Eido Inoue <havill>
Component: gettextAssignee: Leon Ho <llch>
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Description Eido Inoue 2004-05-04 20:38:50 UTC
Description of problem:
Programmers that want to use the API/ABI provided by gettext to access
PO files from a C program currently cannot do so because the libraries
and headers are not packaged (only the .la file is packaged, which is
not useful by itself for development). 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gettext-0.14.1-2.1

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -ql gettext | grep -i libgettext
2. or alternatively, try to compile the sample code in gettext.info
   in the node libgettextpo

Additional info:
Other vendors RPMs do include the development files (see
rpmfind.net)-- although it could be debated as to whether they belong
in gettext or gettext-devel

Comment 1 Leon Ho 2004-05-24 05:04:02 UTC
We have been using --disable-shared for a while the *.so is not
included. I did not know the reason of previous maintainer disabling
it but i think it is good idea to include it. 

What do you think is favorable way to pacakge the *.so? Majority of
people do not need those API so I would think putting them into
gettext-devel maybe better. What do you think?


Comment 2 Eido Inoue 2004-05-24 16:27:10 UTC
Comment 1: as end users would never use them, libgettextpo.so* and the
gettext-po.h obviously belong in the subpackage gettext-devel

Comment 3 Leon Ho 2004-06-02 07:15:12 UTC
Thanks for the report! this should be fixed on 0.14.1. please confirm
the new package when you can.

Comment 4 Leon Ho 2004-06-02 07:16:12 UTC
s/0.14.1/0.14.1-3/

Comment 5 Eido Inoue 2004-06-02 15:46:49 UTC
I'm looking over 0.14.1-3 right now. There sure are a lot of files in
gettext-devel!

However, I've noticed something strange: the info pages in 0.14.1-3,
in the section "Manipulating PO files", no longer contains
documentation for libgettextpo! IOW, the menu item 

* libgettextpo::      Writing your own programs that process PO files

in gettext.info exists in 0.12.1-1, but not in 0.14.1-3 (which has
support for the API-- ironic)