Re: [PATCH] git-sh-i18n: detect and avoid broken gettext(1) implementation

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 21:00, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

IOW, the first step would look like the attached patch, and then we can
replace the entire "First decide" part if/elif/fi chain with just this:

       # The scheme to use
       : ${GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME:=@@GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME@@}

so that t/lib-gettext.sh can define and export GIT_INTERNAL_GETTEXT_SH to
always get what it wants to test (fallthrough?). At build time, instead
of, or in addition to, the $(cmd_munge_script), we could replace the
single @@GETTEXT_SH_SCHEME@@ token above with whatever scheme we want to
use to hardcode the decision we make at the compile time.

I can imagine a Solaris system being upgraded to GNU gettext _after_ Git
installation. Hardcoding the decision might break git scripts then.