glib causes bloat

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From: H.Merijn Brand
Subject: glib causes bloat
Date: 15:33 on 12 Apr 2006

I just want a 64bit ethereal on HP-UX

ethereal needs glib and gtk+
those need pango and atk

so far so good. Understandable and OK.

But glib does not allow to be configured without NLS, hence requires gettext
and libintl, two of the most stupid extentions ever invented to make software
portable. --disable-nls should be the default, and supported by every single
piece of open source software.

There is no fucking guarantee that any of my client systems have either
gettext or intl installed, and if the sysadm's are sane, they are not
installed.

I am left with only two options:

1. Build static libs for gettext and intl so I can use glib
2. Find another utility that does what ethereal does

As my customer asked for ethereal, I am afraid I will be stuck with option 1

glib causes bloat H.Merijn Brand 15:33 on 12 Apr 2006
- Re: glib causes bloat =?iso-8859-1?b?U+liYXN0aWVu?= Aperghis-Tramoni 16:41 on 12 Apr 2006
- Jarkko Hietaniemi 16:12 on 13 Apr 2006
  - too deep to show
- Jarkko Hietaniemi 21:38 on 13 Apr 2006
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