Re: [bug-gettext] bootstrapping coreutils: autopoint from gettext 0.18.3.1 fails

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 11/19/2013 04:41 AM, Daiki Ueno wrote:
> Bernhard Voelker <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>>   ./bootstrap: autopoint --force
>>   sh: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
>>   /usr/bin/m4:configure.ac:444: cannot open `m4/cu-progs.m4': \
>>     No such file or directory
>>   autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
>>   autopoint: *** Missing version: please specify in configure.ac \
>>     through a line 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(x.yy.zz)' the gettext \
>>     version the package is using
>>   autopoint: *** Stop.
>>
>> So m4 seems to be used earlier in the process,
>> to parse the AN_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION from configure.ac,
>> before we have things setup for m4.
> 
> Thanks for the report.  It looks like another oversight in the tracing
> code in autopoint.  Attaching a patch.

Thanks, now autopoint works again, yet outputting the diagnostics:

  ./bootstrap: autopoint --force
  sh: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
  sh: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
  sh: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
  sh: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
  sh: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
  sh: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory

because adding the redirection 2>/dev/null was (deliberately?) reverted:

>> Bug
>>   http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40083
>> seems to be related, but the fix was to just discard stderr.
> 
> Yeah, maybe we should consider borrowing the tracing code from libtool.
> That should be more reliable and avoid duplicate effort like this.

Thanks again.

Have a nice day,
Berny