Re: Test failures in coreutils-5.3.0 on cygwin

[Eric Blake]

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[cross-posted to bug-gnu-gettext]

According to Jim Meyering on 1/11/2005 10:09 AM:
> autoreconf should work fine.

Actually, the tarball includes AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(0.13.1), the latest
version of autopoint is 0.14.1, but some of the gettext .m4 files are
newer than the 0.14.1 version.  To get a good reconf, I had to use
`AUTOPOINT=true autoreconf -fiv', skipping autopoint, because autopoint
insisted on pulling in older .m4 files which then broke autoconf.  For
example, autopoint changed m4/glibc21.m4:

$ diff -u m4/glibc21.m4{~,}
- --- m4/glibc21.m4~      2004-04-13 11:52:30.000000000 -0600
+++ m4/glibc21.m4       2005-01-11 07:06:17.155750000 -0700
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
- -# glibc21.m4 serial 3
- -dnl Copyright (C) 2000-2002, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# glibc21.m4 serial 2 (fileutils-4.1.3, gettext-0.10.40)
+dnl Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 dnl This file is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU
 dnl General Public License.  As a special exception to the GNU General
 dnl Public License, this file may be distributed as part of a program
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # Test for the GNU C Library, version 2.1 or newer.
 # From Bruno Haible.

- -AC_DEFUN([gl_GLIBC21],
+AC_DEFUN([jm_GLIBC21],
   [
     AC_CACHE_CHECK(whether we are using the GNU C Library 2.1 or newer,
       ac_cv_gnu_library_2_1,


Note the change in the macro name, explaining this snippet of the
autoreconf failure I previously reported:

configure:56077: error: possibly undefined macro: gl_GLIBC21
autoreconf: /usr/local/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

Bruno - it may be time for a new gettext/autopoint release, with the
smarts to not replace .m4 scripts if the replacement would reduce the
serial number; and at any rate, since coreutils depends on something later
than 0.14.1.  Also, I couldn't find any gettext mailing list archives on
the net, to see if this problem has been reported before.

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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