Hello Bruce, * Bruce Korb wrote on Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 02:45:17AM CEST: > > I don't necessarily know that it is a "gettext" program. > I certainly don't want to have to know. Can this please > trigger a message that says, "your distro packager left > out the "gettext" stuff, so you are hosed." It's easier > to cope with messages like that. Thank you. > P.S. it is the result of running "autoreconf". Thanks for the report, and sorry for the long delay. Here's a cheap patch. Would this be sufficient? It requires you to use -v aka. --verbose in order to see the message. Cheers, Ralf 2008-03-03 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@xxxxxx> * bin/autoreconf.in: When invoking autopoint or libtoolize, mention the respective package used in verbose mode. Report by Bruce Korb. diff --git a/bin/autoreconf.in b/bin/autoreconf.in index fa48b20..55dc69b 100644 --- a/bin/autoreconf.in +++ b/bin/autoreconf.in @@ -363,6 +363,7 @@ sub autoreconf_current_directory () } else { + verb "$configure_ac: using Gettext"; xsystem "$autopoint"; } @@ -527,6 +528,7 @@ sub autoreconf_current_directory () { $libtoolize .= " --ltdl"; } + verb "$configure_ac: using Libtool"; xsystem ($libtoolize); $rerun_aclocal = 1; } _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf