Re: use latest gettext: 0.18

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:

> On 05/26/2010 12:12 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> I've just pushed these 4 patches:
>>
>>       maint: don't emit an extra newline in each of two diagnostics
>>       build: update gnulib submodule to latest
>>       maint: update helper scripts from gnulib
>>       build: use latest gettext: 0.18
>>
>> Subject: [PATCH 4/4] build: use latest gettext: 0.18
>>
>> * configure.ac: Use gettext-0.18.
>> * bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Use gettext-h, not gettext.
>> since the latter drags in a depedency on gettext 0.18.
>
> That's odd - why are you swapping to gettext-h to avoid gettext-0.18,
> yet changing configure.ac to require gettext-0.18, all in the same patch?

I should have explained.
With the above, the requirement is in only one place: this line
of configure.ac:

  AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.18])

rather than both there and in bootstrap's use of the "gettext" module.
This way, distros that cannot yet require gettext-0.18
can simply s/18/17/ to make configure.ac do what they want.