Re: autoreconf gets autopoint order wrong?

[Soren A]

I'll apologize in advance for asking questions instead of providing
answers. Paul's posting gave rise to several questions for me. Hopefully
my posting in this thread won't be off-topic; if it's off-topic for the
thread then hopefully follow-ups can be re-titled. 

"Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden> wrote around 03 Oct 2002 
news:address@hidden:

> I'm using autoconf 2.54 / automake 1.7 / gettext 0.11.5.

I am not clear on what package you, Paul, are trying to build.

> My source tree contains no derived files at all; you must install the
> above tools before you can build from a CVS checkout.
> 
> By hand I need to run these tools to get the tree "ready to build":
> 
>   autopoint
>   aclocal -I config
>   autoheader
>   automake --add-missing
>   autoconf
>   ./configure
>   make update

I have never heard of `autopoint' before and wonder if someone could 
describe what it does, what is its role with the Autotools. Or provide 
pointers to where I can educate myself, of course.


> ("make update" grabs public files from ftp.gnu.org, translation files,
> etc. using wget).

This is the main reason i am writing. I observed the need for this recently 
and so did others (on another List). This "update" target in a Makefile -- 
how does it work? Where can I see that? Is this generated by an Automake 
run on input files ('Makefile.am's)? ???

  Thanks!
    Soren A