Remove catgets fallback code.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 41 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index 66c49ed..08d1836 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -13,9 +13,10 @@ here included functions compile ok.  This helps to prevent errors
 when installing other packages which use this library.  The message
 handling functions are not yet part of POSIX and ISO/IEC standards
 and therefore it is not possible to rely on facts about their
-implementation in the local C library.  If the installer selects
-it, GNU gettext tries using the systems functionality; in that
-case, compatibility problems might occur.
+implementation in the local C library.  For this reason, GNU gettext
+tries using the system's functionality only if it is a GNU gettext
+implementation (possibly a different version); otherwise, compatibility
+problems would occur.
 
 We felt that the Uniforum proposals has the much more flexible interface
 and, what is more important, does not burden the programmers as much as
@@ -32,15 +33,9 @@ The goal of this library was to give a unique interface to message
 handling functions.  At least the same level of importance was to give
 the programmer/maintainer the needed tools to maintain the message
 catalogs.  The interface is designed after the proposals of the
-Uniforum group.  So systems having this interface implemented in their
-C library don't need the library provided here (and it will
-automatically not be included).  If your systems C library implements
-the second widely available approach (X/Opens catgets) the library
-can use this and only some stubs will be compiled to provide the
-needed interface.  If neither is locally available a full
-implementation of the library will be compiled.
-
-The configure script provides three non-standard options.  These will
+Uniforum group.
+
+The configure script provides two non-standard options.  These will
 also be available in other packages if they use the functionality of
 GNU gettext.  Use
 
@@ -71,27 +66,10 @@ The second configure option is
 
 	--with-included-gettext
 
-This forces to use the GNU implementing the message handling library
+This forces to use the GNU implementation of the message handling library
 regardless what the local C library provides.  This possibility is
-much less error prone because possible unreliable effects of the local
-message handling system are avoided.  And perhaps more important: many
-useful features can only be exploited with this library.  The reason
-is obvious: we cannot dig in the internals of other implementations.
-It is likely that the discrepancy between the GNU implementation and
-others will get bigger in the time coming.  So better change now!
-
-The third option is:
-
-	--with-catgets
-
-The X/Open catgets functions which might be found in the local C
-library are not used by default.  The reason is already described
-above: the GNU gettext library provides many useful extension which
-cannot be emulated with catgets().  Beside this the utility programs
-for generating the catalog used by catgets() vary heavily between
-different systems.  You should select this feature only if you really
-don't want to use the GNU gettext library and do not want to extended
-functionality (but I do not see any good reason for such a choice).
+useful if the local C library is a glibc 2.1.x or older, which didn't
+have all the features the included libintl has.
 
 
 Other files you might look into:
@@ -119,16 +97,12 @@ Some points you might be interested in before installing the package:
     will recognize GNU message catalog files (.mo files).
 
 3.  If your system's C library already provides the gettext interface
-    it might be a good idea to configure the package with
+    and its associated tools don't come from this package, it might be
+    a good idea to configure the package with
         --program-prefix=g
 
     Systems affected by this are:
-        Solaris 2.x, future GNU and GNU/Linux systems
-
-    One point to mention here is that at least Solaris 2.3 does not have
-    all function of the Uniforum proposal implement.  More specific, the
-    dcgettext() function is missing.  For programmers/maintainers it
-    is therefore nowaday better to avoid using this function.
+        Solaris 2.x
 
 4.  Some system have a very dumb^H^H^H^Hstrange version of msgfmt, the
     one which comes with xview.  This one is *not* usable.  It's best
@@ -140,8 +114,7 @@ Some points you might be interested in before installing the package:
     Sparcs like strings aligned to 8 byte boundaries).  If you want to
     have the output of msgfmt aligned you can use the -a option.  But you
     also could change the default value to be different from 1.  Take
-    a look at the config.h file, built by configure.
-    (If you change the default value the test of msgfmt will fail!)
+    a look at the --alignment option of msgfmt.
 
 6.  The locale name alias scheme implemented here is in a similar form
     implemented in the X Window System.  Especially the alias data base