Re: build problems on Fedora Core 36

[Darshit Shah]

Hi George,

This is a known issue due to a mismatch in gettext and autoconf. Please run 
`autoreconf -ivf`. That should hopefully fix the macro versions. 

On Tue, Feb 8, 2022, at 01:59, George R Goffe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a heck of a time getting wget to build. I'm using the source 
> from " git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/wget.git wget".
>
> Here's what I'm seeing:
>
> make[2]: Entering directory '/export/home/tools/wget1/wget/po'
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/export/home/tools/wget1/wget/po'
> Making all in gnulib_po
> make[2]: Entering directory '/export/home/tools/wget1/wget/gnulib_po'
> Makefile:643: warning: ignoring prerequisites on suffix rule definition
> *** error: gettext infrastructure mismatch: using a Makefile.in.in from 
> gettext version 0.20 but the autoconf macros are from gettext version 
> 0.19
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:685: stamp-po] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/export/home/tools/wget1/wget/gnulib_po'
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:1721: all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/export/home/tools/wget1/wget'
> make: *** [Makefile:1673: all] Error 2
> fc36-bash 5.1 /tools/wget1/wget# cat ../getwget1
>
>
> I don't see where I'm going wrong, could I get you to take a peek please?
>
> Best regards,
>
> George...