Re: [bug-gettext] I cannot compile last version of gettext from git repo

[Andreas Stricker]

Hi

> Here typescript file of my installation
> I compiled the commit eade51378d01552217fd73454bbb93c88edcda30
> 
> Last lines of typescript are:
> ----------------------------
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/fhgserv/gettext/gettext-tools/examples/po'
> make: *** [update-po] Error 2
> aclocal: couldn't open directory `gnulib-m4': No such file or directory
> configure.ac:25: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure.ac:26: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONFIG_HEADER
> configure.ac:114: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
> configure.ac:120: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT
> configure.ac:290: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIB_HAVE_LINKFLAGS
> configure.ac:299: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_LISPDIR
> autoheader: error: AC_CONFIG_HEADERS not found in configure.ac
> configure.ac: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.
> configure.ac: You should verify that configure.ac invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
> configure.ac: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,
> configure.ac: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal).
> doc/Makefile.am:33: installing `../build-aux/mdate-sh'
> gnulib-lib/Makefile.am:53: INCLUDED_LIBXML does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> automake: cannot open < gnulib-lib/Makefile.gnulib: No such file or directory
> ./configure: line 2248: syntax error near unexpected token `gettext-tools,'
> ./configure: line 2248: `gl_INIT_PACKAGE(gettext-tools, $VERSION_NUMBER)'

I've discovered this problem while testing, too. It only occurs with a
recent checkout of gnulib by the autogen script. I didn't manage to
track this down to the root cause. But I suspect a too recent version
of automake or autoconf (as shipped with Ubuntu 11.04). I then tried
to use the gnulib package shipped by ubuntu and ended up with another
error in libgrep from gnulib.

Later I've had success updating the gettext source package along with
the patch. Maybe you'll try it too with customizing the Fedora Core 13
source package.


Regards, Andy

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