Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] build: support newer Automake with older Gettext

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hello Paul, sorry for the delay.

On 04/25/2013 06:23 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Thanks, I applied the following instead; hope it works for you.
> 
> From 57e5a7a1e7c5d53d2eadfb2b606301fbb0f70f45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:22:11 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] maint: port to bleeding-edge Automake by assuming Gettext
>  0.18.2
> 
> Reported by Stefano Lattarini in
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2013-04/msg00009.html>.
> * configure.ac (AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION): Increase from 0.16 to 0.18.2.
> README-alpha says that we do not make any efforts to accommodate
> older versions of Gettext.
> ---
>  configure.ac | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index 3303c53..4ddb694 100644
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ AC_CHECK_TYPE(iconv_t,:,
>  
>  # Gettext.
>  AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external], [need-formatstring-macros])
> -AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.16])
> +AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.18.2])
>  
>  # Initialize the test suite.
>  AC_CONFIG_TESTDIR(tests)
>
Alas, this doesn't work.  The failure was due to the interaction between
one small buglet in Gettext 0.18.2 and a little regression in bleeding-edge
automake.  I've now fixed the latter [1], and GNU tar bootstraps cleanly
once again, with or without this patch of yours.  So feel free to revert it
if you want.

  [1] <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=d90001>

Thanks, and sorry for the confusion,
  Stefano