From 6fded249cd191fdd19f41148adc3792960499dbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabian Boehm <FHomborg@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2024 21:47:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Enable gettext without the _nl_msg_cat_cntr gnuism

This should allow e.g. musl to be translated.
---
 build.rs            | 10 ++++++++--
 src/env_dispatch.rs |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/build.rs b/build.rs
index a81e1d07a..6aae715f1 100644
--- a/build.rs
+++ b/build.rs
@@ -84,6 +84,13 @@ fn detect_cfgs(target: &mut Target) {
         ),
         ("bsd", &detect_bsd),
         ("gettext", &have_gettext),
+        ("HAVE_NL_MSG_CAT_CNTR", &|target| {
+            Ok(
+            target.has_symbol_in("_nl_msg_cat_cntr", &["intl"])
+                ||
+            target.has_symbol_in("_nl_msg_cat_cntr", &["gettextlib"])
+                    )
+        }),
         ("small_main_stack", &has_small_stack),
         // See if libc supports the thread-safe localeconv_l(3) alternative to localeconv(3).
         ("localeconv_l", &|target| {
@@ -159,7 +166,7 @@ fn have_gettext(target: &Target) -> Result<bool, Box<dyn Error>> {
     // symbol _nl_msg_cat_cntr, we cannot use gettext even if we find it.
     let mut libraries = Vec::new();
     let mut found = 0;
-    let symbols = ["gettext", "_nl_msg_cat_cntr"];
+    let symbols = ["gettext"];
     for symbol in &symbols {
         // Historically, libintl was required in order to use gettext() and co, but that
         // functionality was subsumed by some versions of libc.
@@ -178,7 +185,6 @@ fn have_gettext(target: &Target) -> Result<bool, Box<dyn Error>> {
     }
     match found {
         0 => Ok(false),
-        1 => Err(format!("gettext found but cannot be used without {}", symbols[1]).into()),
         _ => {
             rsconf::link_libraries(&libraries, LinkType::Default);
             Ok(true)
diff --git a/src/env_dispatch.rs b/src/env_dispatch.rs
index 6a63b9bfe..2de631656 100644
--- a/src/env_dispatch.rs
+++ b/src/env_dispatch.rs
@@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ fn init_locale(vars: &EnvStack) {
         new_msg_locale.to_string_lossy()
     );
 
-    #[cfg(gettext)]
+    #[cfg(all(gettext, HAVE_NL_MSG_CAT_CNTR))]
     {
         if old_msg_locale.as_c_str() != new_msg_locale {
             // Make change known to GNU gettext.