Gettext only at build time (was: [51224] trunk/dports/gnome/gdl/Portfile

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 21, 2009, at 02:26, devans at macports.org wrote:

> +depends_build       port:pkgconfig \
> +                    port:intltool \
> +                    port:gettext \
> +                    port:p5-xml-parser \
> +                    port:gtk-doc

I've seen other ports list gettext as a build dependency, but I've  
always wondered what kind of software would want to use gettext at  
build time but not at runtime? How does that work? It is a  
localization system, and the way it's usually used is to compile text  
message catalogs into a binary form at build time, and to link with  
the libintl library, and at runtime to use libintl to load those  
message catalogs and pull translations out of them.