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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon rkd77

Support system gettext

Open doughdemon opened this issue 5 years ago • 3 comments

Elinks bundles a very old copy of gettext that might have security vulnerabilities. It would be great if it could also be built with an external gettext. (See https://bugs.gentoo.org/635110 .)

I think the copy of gettext has been slightly modified (something related to access keys?).

doughdemon avatar Aug 19 '20 20:08 doughdemon

I doubt that old gettext code in ELinks with static set of translations is more dangerous than new versions of gettext.

rkd77 avatar Aug 20 '20 18:08 rkd77

Added --enable-gettext to ./configure It chooses system gettext In meson it is -Dgettext=true

rkd77 avatar Aug 08 '21 20:08 rkd77

I think that this should be added without additional gettext option and should be hooked under nsl.

kloczek avatar Aug 21 '22 07:08 kloczek