[Gretl-users] Re: Gretl error [disabling NLS]

[Allin Cottrell]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Olvar Bergland wrote:

> I was attempting to compile Gretl version 1.6.5 on a Linux 
> (Gentoo) box with NLS turned off. However, I get this error 
> message:
> 
> ../lib/src/interact.c: In function 'parseopt':
> ../lib/src/interact.c:2450: error: expected expression before 'else'

Thanks, Olvar.  I'm cc'ing this reply to the gretl-users list 
because it might be of interest there.

I haven't tried building gretl with --disable-nls in a long time, 
and I see there are quite a few errors.  I fixed the one you 
mention, but then many more appeared.

I'll have to think about this.  Either I should go through the 
code and fix everything for a non-nls build, or I should remove
the "--disable-nls" configure option.  Right now, I'm inclined 
towards the second option.  With current GTK being UTF-8 based,
I'm afraid that even if I got non-nls compilation to work, one 
might end up with a broken program.

It used to be that most free software that supported NLS offered a 
"disable-nls" switch, but I'm not seeing that so much these days, 
and maybe there's a good reason for it!

Any further thoughts on this?

-- 
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC