-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [adding autoconf list] According to Colin Watson on 11/18/2008 3:35 AM: > I find the advice in gnulib's documentation "Caveat: gettextize and > autopoint users" rather difficult to follow in practice. I prefer to use > autoreconf rather than having to track which tools and options I'm > supposed to be using, but autoreconf invokes autopoint followed by the > other tools without letting me interpose a call to gnulib-tool. Of > course I could call autopoint and gnulib-tool myself and then call > autoreconf with AUTOPOINT=/bin/true, but that's clumsy at best. Indeed, gnulib is gaining in popularity, and the autoconf manual already suggests using gnulib, so fixing autoreconf to (optionally) invoke gnulib-tool seems like a good idea to me. Please test that GNULIB_TOOL=true does indeed make the gnulib portion of autoreconf a no-op. Then could you please add a NEWS entry, documentation in the manual, and a testcase, and resubmit? Also, you will need copyright assignment on file first; more details off-list. > > Is it worth proposing something like the attached patch to the Autoconf > maintainers? Should it be controlled by a command-line option to > autoreconf? I prefer to run 'gnulib-tool --update' every time I > regenerate my autotools files, but I have a feeling some people follow > different practices. Users of the gnulib script 'build-aux/bootstrap' (for example, coreutils) still have to rerun ./bootstrap, because 'gnulib-tool --update' doesn't work for that setup; but since bootstrap already takes care of gettext issues as well as running autoreconf, then it shouldn't affect those packages since they are already avoiding direct runs of autoreconf. But for users of 'gnulib-tool --update' (for example, m4), this does seem like it makes mixing gettext and gnulib easier. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@xxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkivsQACgkQ84KuGfSFAYD7RgCfX6ll4Jhb/Zhae+tHUNc3yzsJ Sp0AoLi8GZbyPuygLapAz2L8sp0ywUf/ =tIqd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
