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

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

Alex Riesen [off-list ref] writes:

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... 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.

Just like you would break http transport by removing libcurl after
installing Git? What else is new?

Removing - yes, upgrading it - very unlikely. Besides, the current version
wont have problems with such an upgrade.