Re: Makevars handling in 'bootstrap'

2019-05-05 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: > > I would suggest to entirely remove the Makevars handling from 'bootstrap', > > and instead let the maintainers create a Makevars file by hand, according > > to the documentation - like they also create configure.ac and Makefile.am > > files by hand. > > Sounds good to me; is

Re: Makevars handling in 'bootstrap'

2019-05-05 Thread Paul Eggert
Bruno Haible wrote: I would suggest to entirely remove the Makevars handling from 'bootstrap', and instead let the maintainers create a Makevars file by hand, according to the documentation - like they also create configure.ac and Makefile.am files by hand. Sounds good to me; is that a trivial

Makevars handling in 'bootstrap'

2019-05-05 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Paul, Tim Rühsen tells me that one of the problems he had yesterday with Makevars is that 'bootstrap' overwrites po/Makevars with one that substitutes values from bootstrap.conf. This has several drawbacks: * In the gettext documentation, Makevars is documented [1] as a file that the mai