Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: autoconf-2.72c

[Bruno Haible]

Richard Purdie wrote:
> > We run autoreconf against most things.
> > ...
> > gettext 0.21.1:
> > ...
> 
> The latter two look like they're as I'm missing the gnulib fixes to
> largefile.m4.

autoreconf is not supported in GNU gettext; there's a script 'autogen.sh'
instead.

When I run this script on the branch where gettext 0.21.1 has been made,
I get this error:

  ./autogen.sh: generating configure in gettext-runtime...
  configure:8378: error: possibly undefined macro: 
_AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_TEST_INCLUDES
        If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
        See the Autoconf documentation.

So, you are right that largefile.m4 from Gnulib is too old. I have now
updated the 'largefile' and 'year2038' modules on the stable-* branches
of Gnulib. This ensures compatibility with autoconf-2.72c.

Note: To get the fix, it's not enough to run 'autoreconf'. The upstream
maintainer needs to pull from gnulib, then run 'bootstrap' or
autopull.sh+autogen.sh.

Bruno