We should alter gnulib-tool to not indent that line, in the short term. In the longer term autopoint should be fixed to work even if the AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION line is indented, so I'll CC: this message to bug-gnu-gettext.
By the way, I'm puzzled that this problem was discovered just now. Isn't there a similar problem with autopoint 0.18.1? Anyway, here's the patch I installed into gnulib. >From 5eaf72020c5165f9445d58e66a59868191b87c45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 08:03:10 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] gnulib-tool: fix incompatibility with autopoint 0.18.2 * gnulib-tool: Don't indent AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION line. Problem reported by Tom G. Christensen in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2013-01/msg00053.html>. --- ChangeLog | 7 +++++++ gnulib-tool | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index f036ac1..42952cf 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2013-01-05 Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> + + gnulib-tool: fix incompatibility with autopoint 0.18.2 + * gnulib-tool: Don't indent AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION line. + Problem reported by Tom G. Christensen in + <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2013-01/msg00053.html>. + 2013-01-04 Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> fprintftime: bring back and reword fwrite comment diff --git a/gnulib-tool b/gnulib-tool index 2e7f1da..c5ab13b 100755 --- a/gnulib-tool +++ b/gnulib-tool @@ -3930,7 +3930,9 @@ func_emit_autoconf_snippet () | { if $disable_gettext; then sed -e 's/AM_GNU_GETTEXT(\[external\])/dnl you must add AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external]) or similar to configure.ac./' else - cat + # Don't indent AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION line, as that confuses + # autopoint through at least GNU gettext version 0.18.2. + sed -e 's/^ *AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION/AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION/' fi } if test "$module" = 'alloca' && test "$libtool" = true && ! $disable_libtool; then -- 1.7.11.7
