gnulib configure.ac and autopoint?

[Tom G. Christensen]

Hello,

Using autopoint from gettext 0.18.2 I am unable to create a gnulib testdir.

$ gnulib/gnulib-tool --create-testdir --with-tests --dir=t gettext
Module list with included dependencies (indented):
    extensions
  gettext
    gettext-h
    havelib
Notice from module gettext:
  You must add an invocation of AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) to configure.ac.
File list:
...
...
executing autopoint --force
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.

The problem seems to be that autopoint is looking for 
^AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION but in the gnulib-tool created configure.ac it 
is indented.
The indentation looks to be hardcoded in gnulib-tool (in 
func_emit_autoconf_snippets) so I had to modify autopoint to instead 
look for ^[[:space:]]*AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION before I could create a 
testdir.

What is the correct solution to this issue?

-tgc