On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:47 pm, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> >> > > $ autoreconf
> >> > > autoreconf: configure.ac: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is used, but not AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION
> >>
> >> > 1. The automake example of AM_GNU_GETTEXT does not show
> >> > AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION being used in conjunction with it.
> >> > In fact, it isn't even documented at all.
> 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. "autoreconf" then:)
# ------------------- #
# Running autopoint. #
# ------------------- #
# Gettext is a bit of a problem: its macros are not necessarily
# visible to aclocal, so if we start with a completely striped down
# package (think of a fresh CVS checkout), running `aclocal' first
# will fail: the Gettext macros are missing.
#
# Therefore, we can't use the traces to decide if we use Gettext or
# not. I guess that once Gettext move to 2.5x we will be able to,
# but in the meanwhile forget it.
#
# We can only grep for AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION in configure.ac. You
# might think this approach is naive, and indeed it is, as it
# prevents one from embedding AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION in another *.m4, but
# anyway we don't limit the generality, since... that's what
# autopoint does. Actually, it is even more restrictive, as it
# greps for `^AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION\('. We did this above, while
# scanning configure.ac.
> Maybe the autoreconf documentation should point to the Gettext
> manual. Care to patch the Autoconf manual?
Below. :-)
Cheers,
Bruce
Index: autoconf.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/doc/autoconf.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.868
diff -b -B -u -p -r1.868 autoconf.texi
--- autoconf.texi 28 Jan 2005 21:55:57 -0000 1.868
+++ autoconf.texi 30 Jan 2005 17:47:44 -0000
@@ -1436,10 +1436,10 @@ System in a fresh tree.
@command{autoreconf} runs @command{autoconf}, @command{autoheader},
@command{aclocal}, @command{automake}, @command{libtoolize}, and
-@command{autopoint} (when appropriate) repeatedly to update the
+@command{autopoint} (when appropriate, see below) repeatedly to update the
@acronym{GNU} Build System in the specified directories and their
-subdirectories (@pxref{Subdirectories}). By default, it only remakes
-those files that are older than their sources.
+subdirectories (@pxref{Subdirectories}). By default, it only remakes those
+files that are older than their sources.
If you install a new version of some tool, you can make
@command{autoreconf} remake @emph{all} of the files by giving it the
@@ -1451,6 +1451,13 @@ method handles the timestamps of configu
properly, but does not pass @option{--autoconf-dir=@var{dir}} or
@option{--localdir=@var{dir}}.
+@command{autopoint} is GNU's gettext program to add the gettext
+infrastructure necessary for a source package. @command{autopoint} will be
+run if the macro ``@samp{AM_GNU_GETTEXT}'' is found in the
+@file{configure.ac} file. That program relies on another macro
+``@samp{AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(<gtxt-ver>)}'' which must @emph{also} be present in
+@file{configure.ac}. See the GNU Gettext documentation for further details.
+
@noindent
@command{autoreconf} accepts the following options:
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