Re: make dist

[Tony Abou-Assaleh]

Found the problem. The automake version was 1.4, which caused a few things
not to work. The syntax of some macros changed in later versions of
automake.

In 'configure.in', some languages were not included in ALL_LINGUAS that
are in 'po/', which caused a problem with the 1.4 automake. More
specifically, I had:

-ALL_LINGUAS="cs de el eo es et fr gl hr id it ja ko nl no pl pt_BR ru sl sv"
+ALL_LINGUAS="bg ca cs da de el eo es et fr gl hr id it ja ko nb nl no pl pt_BR 
ru sl sv tr"


GNU Autoconf recommends renaming configure.in to configure.ac. The only
benefit is a more meaningful name. Shall we?

'GNU which' has a 'bootstrap' [1] script that serves the same function as
our autogen.sh, but I think is better written (actually that's how I
realized that I had an old automake). Can we borrow it? I could make the
necessary renamings, modifications, and testings.

The grep nightly build page [2] is back up and operational.

[1] http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/which/which/bootstrap

[2] http://www.dal-acm.ca/~taa/grep/

Cheers,

TAA

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Tony Abou-Assaleh
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On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Charles Levert wrote:

> * On Thursday 2005-11-10 at 17:37:57 -0400, Tony Abou-Assaleh wrote:
> > Using the latest debian, there are several things broken in the cvs when
> > trying to create the nightly snapshots.
> >
> > I fixed some using one-liner patches, and still working on others.
> >
> > I am not sure why some things that used to work are broken now. But as I
> > read the docs for the different tools, it's becoming more of: I don't know
> > why broken things used to work in the past.
>
> Can you be more specific about which tools
> are causing the problem?  So many tools are
> involved...
>
>
> > Over all, it should be a good experience to getting to know these tools.
> > Stay tuned for updates :O)
>
> I am done some work towards cleaning up
> Makefile.cvs and adding a smart cvs-dist target
> to Makefile.am.  Stay tuned as well.
>
>
> > In the mean time, let me know if 'make dist' works on your system with a
> > freshly checked out cvs tree.
>
> It works for me, but then again my system is
> not a latest one:
>
>    GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release
>    automake (GNU automake) 1.7.8
>    autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.57
>    GNU Make version 3.79.1
>    xgettext (GNU gettext-tools) 0.12.1
>    GNU find version 4.1.7
>    tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25
>    gzip 1.3.3
>    bzip2, a block-sorting file compressor.  Version 1.0.2, 30-Dec-2001.
>
> Hmmm, there's that capital/lowercase name issue
> all over the place again.  :-)
>
>