Re: building gettext on Mac OS X without CoreFoundation

[Bruno Haible]

Aaron Simmons wrote in 
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2009-08/msg00040.html>:
> I'm building gettext v0.17 on Mac OS X 10.5.  I'd like to build gettext so 
> that 
> it doesn't have any CoreFoundation dependencies.

Why are you trying this? You could just as well not build gettext, and build
all other packages with --disable-nls. The effect would be nearly the same.

Recall that gettext is about internationalization. Internationalization means
that programs show messages in the user's preferred language. The user has
specified his preferred language to the OS, and the OS stores that information
in a place where CoreFoundation can access it. If a program does not link
with CoreFoundation, it cannot access that information, thus it cannot serve
the user in his preferred language.

Bruno