Annoying changes to gettext.

[david ingamells]

Dear gettexters,
having just updated my system to SuSE 8.1, I have also received the latest 
version of gettext [(GNU gettext) 0.11.5] and find that you have changed 
several things so that my old setup did not work any more. I looked through 
the documentation but found nothing to warn about these changes: please take 
care in the future to look after existing users of gettext.

Finally there is one change you have made that continues to get in the way and 
I would like to see an option/change to gettextize to prevent it, to quote:

"Furthermore, `gettextize' will update all `Makefile.am' files in
each affected directory, as well as the top level `configure.in' or
`configure.ac' file."

This action insists in adding text to these files even if the settings are 
already there, e.g.

AC_OUTPUT([
   m4/Makefile 
   Makefile
   src/Makefile
   doc/Makefile
   man/Makefile
   po/Makefile.in
   intl/Makefile],
[touch Makefile.in])

changes to

AC_OUTPUT([ intl/Makefile po/Makefile.in m4/Makefile 
   m4/Makefile 
   Makefile
   src/Makefile
   doc/Makefile
   man/Makefile
   po/Makefile.in
   intl/Makefile],

as you will see the three entries are now doubled up.

Regards,

David Ingamells (maintainer of GNU indent)
email: address@hidden

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