Hi Ralf, On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hello David, > > * David Bruce wrote on Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 09:55:03PM CET: >> dnl NOTE - the following conditional does not work. >> if test $native_win32 = yes; then >> AM_GNU_GETTEXT >> else >> AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) >> fi > > AFAICS, the AM_GNU_GETTEXT macro cannot be invoked more than once, > conditionally, in a configure.ac file, with the decision only made at > configure time.[1] Whether you have an intl/ subdirectory in your > distribution tarball should not depend upon the system you're building > on, I guess. Basically, the Debian packager for our programs says that there should not be an intl/ subdir because of Debian policies regarding duplication of code. However, I had not previously been able to set up a linux-based win32 crossbuild with a separate intl library. > If you want to allow different types of distributions of your tarball, > you should expand the macro differently at m4 (autoconf) run time, by > an m4 conditional like m4_ifdef, m4_if or so. I'll read up on that. > [1] The internal reason why it can't work is that the macro uses > AC_REQUIRE (thus you should use AS_IF not shell if, to let required > macros be expanded outside the shell conditional), and that it does > more different, complex things at m4 time depending upon the macro > argument, which means your shell conditional isn't taken into account > for these things. So just to be clear, even if I stick the AM_GNU_GETTEXT macros inside an AS_IF conditional, it still won't have the desired behavior? Thanks, David _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
