On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:47 pm, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > Bruce> Um, okay, but if automake is going to emit the message, then it only > Bruce> makes sense (to me) that automake include the documentation. > > That would make sense to me too. However automake is not > emitting the message, autoreconf does. Actually automake knows > nothing about AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION: it's none of its business. OK. I was confusing the two. The autoreconf manual, then. :) > Maybe the autoreconf documentation should point to the Gettext > manual. Care to patch the Autoconf manual? OK. Maybe sometime soon. ;-D In any event, if autoreconf code validates the context for AM_GNU_GETTEXT, then I'd information about what it is validating, why, give hints and *then* refer the reader to gettext docs. > Bruce> Also, if you're going to have a AM_GNU_GETTEXT example > Bruce> in the doc, wouldn't it also make sense to have a > Bruce> correct example? > > Yes! I believe you are talking about the GNU Hello example > included in the Automake manual. I simply did a search on "AM_GNU_GETTEXT" in the automake manual and wound up whereever it was I wound up. :) I guess now that was the GNU Hello example page....Anyway, if the macro starts with "AM_" and is an official macro, then it needs to be in automake docs, too, even if little more than hints and pointers. > Things are moving, but slowly. > > Please see (in that order): > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2004-11/msg00099.html > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hello/2004-12/msg00008.html > http://www-src.lip6.fr/homepages/Alexandre.Duret-Lutz/autotools.html Karl Berry wrote me to see if I could come up with a recommended way of doing a trivial config file for the "Hello, world" configurables. [[It seems a bit out of hand for "Hello, world" to require configurable options, but then it is intended as example code....]] Cheers & thanks, all. - Bruce _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
