[MacPorts] #25681: gettext +universal: gnu.gettext.DumpResource differs and cannot be merged

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#25681: gettext +universal: gnu.gettext.DumpResource differs and cannot be merged
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  Reporter:  alexoedelman@…          |       Owner:  ryandesign@…           
      Type:  defect                  |      Status:  closed                 
  Priority:  Normal                  |   Milestone:                         
 Component:  ports                   |     Version:  1.9.1                  
Resolution:  fixed                   |    Keywords:                         
      Port:  gettext                 |  
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Changes (by ryandesign@…):

  * status:  assigned => closed
  * resolution:  => fixed


Comment:

 The problem is that gettext looks for and, if found, uses a Java compiler
 to compile its Java stuff into native executables. If gettext does not
 find a Java compiler, or the Java compiler it finds is broken, gettext
 ignores it and moves on. (I wish it had instead printed an error message;
 we would have more quickly identified the problem.) Mac OS X does not
 include a Java compiler. gcc45 and gcc46 have a working Java compiler but
 gcc44's is broken; see #22066. If you "sudo gcc_select mp-gcc45" (or "sudo
 gcc_select mp-gcc46") this creates a symlink /opt/local/bin/gcj which
 gettext then finds and uses.

 So we can't build these compiled Java programs all the time; doing so
 would require declaring a dependency on e.g. gcc45 which would be way too
 heavy a dependency for such an essential low-level library as gettext.
 Therefore we should ensure these Java programs are never compiled to
 native code, even if gcj is available. And this is how I fixed it in
 r70100.

 See also UsingTheRightCompiler for info about the general problems of
 ports using whatever compiler they find and the reasons why we instead
 want them to use a specific known-good compiler, and how that is
 accomplished.

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