Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > Does this work?
> > AUTOPOINT=true autoreconf --install
> ...
> Trying it, autoreconf (automake) complains about missing ABOUT-NLS:
>
> configure.ac:55: required file `./ABOUT-NLS' not found
>
> I don't see that file in gnulib. So it doesn't seem to work.
What the gnulib manual means to say (but perhaps doesn't say clearly enough)
is that if you have PO files in your package, you should invoke in this order:
1. autopoint, in order to get the gettext infrastructure,
2. gnulib-tool, in order to override some gettext infrastructure .m4 files
with newer ones,
3. AUTOPOINT=true autoreconf --install
in order to regenerate configure and other files.
I'm more and more thinking that it was a design mistake to make 'autoreconf'
invoke 'libtoolize' and 'autopoint'. The task of fetching .m4 files omitted
from a version control repository is conceptually a very different task than
generating aclocal.m4, configure, and config.h.in files from other files;
it ought to be done by a different program.
Bruno
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