[PATCH] Remove dependency from libintl in Samba4.

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sun Jun 7 23:27:30 GMT 2009


On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 22:52 +0000, Timur I. Bakeyev wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I was a bit surprised to find out that my build of Samba4 has dependency
> from libintl library, taking into account, that I disable it for all
> supplimentary libraries and don't see any i18n staff in the source tree.
> 
> After some digging I figured out that this dependency comes from the
> domestic version of Heimdal, that comes with Samba4. honestly, I don't
> believe that there is any real need for the l10n of the library, that
> used only deeply internally.

Why?

> So, I suggest to disable inclusion of the libintl in the Samba4 configure.
> 
> Here is the proposed patch.

I disagree.  While Samba may have not yet gained good support in this
area, why should we not use that support when present on the system?

It would also create another difference between Heimdal as used
internally, and our hope to have a system Heimdal used in future.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
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Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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