Re: Serial number formats

[Eric Blake]

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[adding bug-automake]

According to Colin Watson on 3/16/2009 8:04 AM:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 01:13:52PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
>> Hello Colin,
>>
>>> I'm using both gettext and gnulib. In order to avoid confusing file
>>> conflicts, I tell gettext to install into m4/ and gnulib to install into
>>> gnulib/m4/, and rely on aclocal's documented serial number handling to
>>> sort it out. I use '-I m4 -I gnulib/m4' in ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS since
>>> autopoint installs into the first -I directory in ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS.
>> The recommended way to solve this conflict is documented in the gnulib 
>> manual:
>>   
>> <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/gettextize-and-autopoint.html>
> 
> This is inadequate because it requires you to run gnulib-tool between
> autopoint and aclocal, and then you cannot use autoreconf and have to
> reinvent the wheel.
> 
> 
> Beyond the gettext compatibility issue, there are many files in gnulib
> that have serial lines in a format not recognised by aclocal that have
> nothing to do with gettext. Is there a good reason for these? I'd list
> them here but there seem to be over 300 of them.

Maybe the solution is to expand automake's list of valid serial lines.
True, it won't help until after the next Automake release, but if there
are enough files in the wild that use '# file.m4 serial n', it seems like
we should make it a valid format rather than forcing all those files to
change.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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