Re: [XBoard-devel] some configure.ac questions/ possible gettext solution

[H.G. Muller]

Arun Persaud schreef op 9/18/2014 6:19 PM:
> > "[...]When the maintainer then runs
> > gettextize from, say, version 0.12.1 on the package, the occurrence of
> > AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(0.11.5) will be changed into
> > AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(0.12.1), and all other developers that use the CVS
> > will henceforth need to have GNU gettext 0.12.1 or newer installed."
> the problem is that once you run autopoint with a higher version, it
> will update configure.ac automatically to the installed version
> according the quoted paragraph above.
No, that is not true. It says that happens when you run gettextize. NOT 
autopoint.
But there never should be any reason to run gettextize, once the initial 
gettextize is done.
They are quite explicit (in other places) that gettextize should not be 
part of the regular
build procedure.

Perhaps the solution is that I (as the person with the lowest gettext 
version) should do the
gettextize, and commit the Makefile.in.in resulting from it to git? It 
surely worked for me;
I remember that when we just started this NLS stuff, the way to recover 
from any patch you
made (which made it impossible for me to build) was tu run "gettextize 
-f" myself.

If that would not work for you: the quoted text talked about calling 
autopoint from a
pre-configure script. I suppose that refers to ./autogen.sh? Can the 
problem be that we
should explicitly call autopoint there, and that all problems stem from 
that we don't?

H.G.
>   Which might make it back into git
> by chance (e.g. using a git commit -a) and this will then break things
> again. If we remove the version requirement, autopoint won't run
> automatically anymore as far as I understand and we would need to run
> gettextize manually, which seems saver to me.
Is it not possible to run autopoint manually?
> Arun