Dear listmembers, dear Eric, thank you. The hint regarding Makevars did the trick. Hence for the records (and to whom it might concern): When using an older gettext version you can add AC_DEFUN([AC_DATAROOTDIR_CHECKED]) to either configure.in or configure.ac. This will remove warnings about datarootdir not being defined, AND IT WILL NOT CHECK so datarootdir _will_ be undefined. To proceed from here one can enter datarootdir into the file Makevars of the directory intl/ like datarootdir = $(DATAROOTDIR) _and_ specify something like DATAROOTDIR=/usr/share on the commandline of "make install". This will remove all warnings - but at a decent effort. I wanted it, I got it :-). As I said: just for the records ...... And, no, I really do not want to update gettext. :-))) Thanks again for helping, take care Dieter Jurzitza -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | \ /\_/\ | | ~x~ |/-----\ / \ /- \_/ ^^__ _ / _ ____ / <°°__ \- \_/ | |/ | | || || _| _| _| _| if you really want to see the pictures above - use some font with constant spacing like courier! :-) -----------------------------------------------------------Am Montag, 16. Februar 2009 14:02:29 schrieb Eric Blake: > According to Dieter Jurzitza on 2/15/2009 12:10 PM: > ************* _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf