Re: gettext version-numbering problems in Bison (+ Bison patch)

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote on 2004-05-26:
>  * Currently autopoint greps configure.ac for lines; I guess it should
>    be tracing instead.  I can't put the AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION line in
>    an M4 macro in m4/something.m4, for example.  (I tried this as my
>    first workaround attempt.)

A nice wish, but it won't work reliably: When gettextize is invoked, it
updates the AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION invocation in configure.ac. It this
invocation was in a .m4 file that could possibly be used for a different
configure.ac in a different directory, we would get a version mismatch
regarding the gettext infrastructure in the other directory.

Bruno