[OE-core] [PATCH] glib-networking: Support building with USE_NLS=no

[Ross Burton]

On 30/07/2019 14:03, Mike Crowe wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 July 2019 at 12:15:36 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
>> On 30/07/2019 12:00, Mike Crowe wrote:
>>> As reported in
>>> http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2019-February/279344.html
>>> , glib-networking no longer configures successfully if USE_NLS="no":
>>>
>>> | po/meson.build:1:5: ERROR:  Can not do gettext because xgettext is not installed.
>>>
>>> In the current absence of anything better, it seems that this can be
>>> overcome by telling Meson not to look in the po/ directory.
>>
>> Does this actually work?  glib has the same issue (along with most of the
>> rest of the GTK+ stack that has moved to Meson) and the solution there was
>> to just add gettext as a dependency.
> 
> It seems to for me. I did this in our tree, but I've just tried this change
> and forcing USE_NLS = "no" in the current state of master and the build
> succeeded.
> 
>> We're going to be playing whack-a-mole with this, maybe we should just fix
>> this upstream?
> 
> Fixing it upstream in meson would clearly be preferable, but it seemed that
> this has already been tried. Fixing it in each meson-using package is
> another alternative, but it would be good for it to be done in the same
> way. I know little about meson. :(
> 
> As such hacks go, this is at the less nasty end. Perhaps it could even
> perhaps be incorporated into the meson class?
> 
> I've added a comment to https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/821 .
> 
> Mike.
> 
> (I'm not sure if you intentionally sent this off-list. I don't mind sending
> this reply again to the list if it was a mistake.)
> 

No, I didn't send it off-list intentionally.  New mailer :(  CCing the 
list again now.

I wonder if patching in a disable-nls option that guards the subdir(po) 
would be sufficiently uninvasive and upstreamable to each project?

Ross
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