Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Some systems have gettext.sh (GNU gettext) installed, but it is either broken > or misconfigured in such a way so its output is not usable. > For instance, on this particular system, a Cygwin installations gettext > produces no output whatsoever. > > In case the users of these systems are unable or not interested in fixing > them, setting the new Makefile switch should help: > > USE_FALLTHROUGH_GETTEXT_SCHEME=yes > > This will replace the translation routines with fallthrough versions, which > currently used only for regression testing. > > Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> > --- I'll split this into two, the first one only to restructure the code and the guts of this one that avoids the autodetection. Also I'd rename this so that: $ make USE_GETTEXT_SCHEME=fallthrough $ make USE_GETTEXT_SCHEME=gnu could be used to avoid extra and unnecessary runtime overhead when the person building git knows what is on the system. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html