With my help on IRC, Roman Bogorodskiy identified a bug where the BSD autoconf wrapper script eats stdin[1], which in turn causes autopoint from gettext 0.18.3 to fail to find AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION within configure.ac[2], with this error: ./bootstrap: autopoint --force autopoint: *** Missing version: please specify in configure.ac through a line 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(x.yy.zz)' the gettext version the package is using [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/184479 [2] http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gettext.git/commit/gettext-tools/misc/autopoint.in?id=eea2dddde We found a workaround - fake the use of an intl subdirectory long enough for autopoint to get what it wants from that fallback. This workaround may eventually move upstream into gnulib's bootstrap; when it does, we can remove the hack from libvirt's autogen.sh. * autogen.sh (bootstrap): Force autopoint to work even if autom4te doesn't. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> --- I tested that this doesn't fall apart on Fedora 19 when running autogen.sh (autopoint 0.18.2, no autom4te wrapper), but would like feedback from Roman that it works for his broken toolchain setup. I'd also like feedback from gnulib whether we should fold a similar fix into gnulib's bootstrap, instead of applying this patch to libvirt. autogen.sh | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh index 5aa1990..31e66c0 100755 --- a/autogen.sh +++ b/autogen.sh @@ -88,9 +88,16 @@ if test -d .git || test -f .git; then echo cleaning up submodules... git submodule foreach 'git clean -dfqx && git reset --hard' fi + # work around broken BSD toolchain, where gettext 0.18.3 triggers + # a bug with the autom4te wrapper script eating stdin unless + # intl/VERSION exists, with contents comparable to configure.ac + mkdir -p intl + echo gettext-0.17 > intl/VERSION echo running bootstrap$no_git... ./bootstrap$no_git --bootstrap-sync && bootstrap_hash > $curr_status \ || { echo "Failed to bootstrap, please investigate."; exit 1; } + rm intl/VERSION + rmdir -p intl fi fi -- 1.8.3.1 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list