Re: fix an error message during configure

2024-08-31 Thread Gavin Smith
On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 09:45:25AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi, > > During my many experiments with "make dist" and "make distcheck", I noticed > that './configure' produces an error message: > > $ ./configure > ... > checking for ELF binary format... yes > checking for the common suffixes of

Re: fix an error message during configure

2024-08-17 Thread Gavin Smith
On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 04:15:27PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Gavin Smith wrote: > > Also, if I delete build-aux/ar-lib nothing appears to regenerate it. > > Yes, I made the same experience. 'ar-lib' needs to be imported explicitly. > > > Perhaps it is not needed. > > It is needed for building

Re: fix an error message during configure

2024-08-16 Thread Bruno Haible
Gavin Smith wrote: > Also, if I delete build-aux/ar-lib nothing appears to regenerate it. Yes, I made the same experience. 'ar-lib' needs to be imported explicitly. > Perhaps it is not needed. It is needed for building with the MSVC compiler. Cf. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.gi

Re: fix an error message during configure

2024-08-15 Thread Gavin Smith
On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 07:24:43PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Gavin Smith wrote: > > I'm not sure applying a patch such as this is the best way to upgrade > > these files. If these files came from Automake then it would make sense > > to update them from the Automake release with an installed ve

Re: fix an error message during configure

2024-08-14 Thread Bruno Haible
Gavin Smith wrote: > I'm not sure applying a patch such as this is the best way to upgrade > these files. If these files came from Automake then it would make sense > to update them from the Automake release with an installed version of > Automake by running "automake" or similar (it's probably do

Re: fix an error message during configure

2024-08-14 Thread Gavin Smith
On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 02:15:14AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Gavin Smith wrote: > > > The first part serves the purpose of updating the same files also > > > in the build-aux/ directory, so that you don't risk distributing > > > outdated files for 6 years any more :) ... > > ... I'm not sure wh

Re: fix an error message during configure

2024-08-13 Thread Bruno Haible
Gavin Smith wrote: > > The first part serves the purpose of updating the same files also > > in the build-aux/ directory, so that you don't risk distributing > > outdated files for 6 years any more :) ... > ... I'm not sure which files you are saying were 6 years out of date. When comparing the c

Re: fix an error message during configure

2024-08-13 Thread Gavin Smith
On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 12:29:10PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Yes, it fails in my CI as well: > > aclocal -I gnulib/m4 && autoconf && autoheader && automake > (cd tp/Texinfo/XS && libtoolize && aclocal -I gnulib/m4 && autoconf && > autoheader && automake) > libtoolize: putting auxiliary f

Re: fix an error message during configure

2024-08-13 Thread Gavin Smith
On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 06:03:01PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > Hello, > > The './autogen.sh' step in opencsw fails: > https://buildfarm.opencsw.org/buildbot/waterfall?category=texinfo > > It fails since commit > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/commit/?id=d695e0fbef88a285884ccd1f16

Re: fix an error message during configure

2024-08-12 Thread Bruno Haible
Patrice Dumas wrote: > The './autogen.sh' step in opencsw fails: > https://buildfarm.opencsw.org/buildbot/waterfall?category=texinfo > > It fails since commit > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/commit/?id=d695e0fbef88a285884ccd1f1661d13b75013a39 Yes, it fails in my CI as well: acl

Re: fix an error message during configure

2024-08-10 Thread Patrice Dumas
Hello, The './autogen.sh' step in opencsw fails: https://buildfarm.opencsw.org/buildbot/waterfall?category=texinfo It fails since commit https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/commit/?id=d695e0fbef88a285884ccd1f1661d13b75013a39 I think that it is because options like --install are missing

Re: fix an error message during configure

2024-08-07 Thread Bruno Haible
Gavin Smith wrote: > The "autogen.sh" script at the root of the > Texinfo repository runs autoreconf under tp/Texinfo/XS. Now it runs > autopoint: > > $ autoreconf --force --verbose --install > autoreconf: export WARNINGS= > autoreconf: Entering directory '.' > autoreconf: running: autopoint --fo

Re: fix an error message during configure

2024-08-07 Thread Gavin Smith
On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 10:20:28PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 09:45:25AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > > The fix to the problem is > > 1) To apply the attached patch. Both the main configure.ac and > > tp/Texinfo/XS/configure.ac use the same po/ directory. Since the

Re: fix an error message during configure

2024-08-06 Thread Bruno Haible
Gavin Smith wrote: > Line 145 is newly added: > > +# serial number (from gnulib) to an older serial number (from gettext). > > The comment is being interpreted as some kind of serial number line. Oh, what a bad luck. Yeah, the pattern is '# serial '.[1] Bruno [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/au

Re: fix an error message during configure

2024-08-06 Thread Gavin Smith
On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 09:45:25AM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > The fix to the problem is > 1) To apply the attached patch. Both the main configure.ac and > tp/Texinfo/XS/configure.ac use the same po/ directory. Since the version > of the gettext.m4 and related files must be in sync wit

fix an error message during configure

2024-08-06 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, During my many experiments with "make dist" and "make distcheck", I noticed that './configure' produces an error message: $ ./configure ... checking for ELF binary format... yes checking for the common suffixes of directories in the library search path... lib,lib,lib64 ../../../../tp/Texinfo