[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk 2/2] build-sys: modernize gettext

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi

----- Original Message -----
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 03:20:26PM +0000, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > >
> > > This is the latest gettext release, which is not even 1 year old, is
> > > this the only one which is going to work? Or is it possible to relax
> > > this version chekc?
> > >
> > 
> > It's quite a mess to downgrade gettext or find the minimum required
> > version. RHEL7 has 0.19.8.1 already. I suppose it should work with earlier
> > 0.19 releases, perhaps even older..
> 
> RHEL7.x is using 0.18, and has been doing that for a few point releases.
> RHEL7.4 will apparently have gettext 0.19, but that's not released yet..
> Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has 0.19, Ubuntu 14.04 had 0.18. Debian
> stable/oldstable are both on 0.19.
> However, I was able to build spice-gtk git master on an up to date RHEL
> 7.3 after changing the required gettext version to 0.18, so I'd just
> lower the requirement.
> 

ACK feel free to push the change if you tested it.