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| author |   Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org> | 1998-08-10 20:48:01 +0000 |
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| committer | Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org> | 1998-08-10 20:48:01 +0000 |
| commit | 979144702297a301a79a5190d43d47b2fe345696 (patch) | |
| tree | eaa612eb22168c5827861c630c91695dcd790719 /README | |
| parent | Fix uninitialised variable (was causing problems on SPARC apparently) (diff) | |
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Replace outdated NLS support with GNU gettext (patch from
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>). This
touches virtually every file but the changes are fairly
superficial.
Please check I haven't broken your favourite AF/hardware
type during the conversion.
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -35,9 +35,14 @@ of net-tools should be 1.5. You need kernel 2.0 or later to use these programs. These programs should compile cleanly with either glibc or libc5. -There is no NLS support in this distribution. The files are out of date. -Unless a volunteer is found soon to maintain the translations, NLS will be -dropped altogether. +The NLS support was changed from catgets to GNU gettext by Arnaldo +Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br> in June, 1998, to make the +source more readable. A translation to brazilian portuguese (pt_BR) is +available and others are welcome! + +If your system has no support for GNU gettext then `make install' will +probably fail in the po directory. This is harmless and can be ignored; +all the tools and manual pages are already installed at this point. ipfw has been removed from the distribution. Use ipfwadm instead; get it at <ftp://ftp.xos.nl/pub/linux/ipfwadm/>. @@ -57,5 +62,5 @@ glibc 2.0. Phil Blundell -philb@gnu.ai.mit.edu -21st September 1997 +philb@gnu.org +10th August 1998 |