[Bug 628199] mingw32: libintl-8.dll instead of intl.dll

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Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> 2010-11-10 13:16:11 EST ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> The mingw32-gettext package in rawhide has been updated so that it uses a small
> wrapper library called proxy-libintl. This means that packages which link
> against libintl don't need to have libintl-8.dll installed in order to run. If
> the libintl-8.dll file is missing then no translations will be used. In
> addition to this binaries which have been rebuilt to use proxy-libintl (no
> source code modifications required) can also use intl.dll instead of
> libintl-8.dll if it's available.
> 
> Does this solve this issue for you?

So, if I build on Fedora, the binary would not link directly to libintl-8.dll,
and at run-time it would detect libintl.dll, and use that instead?

If so, yes, that fixes the issue for me.

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