Re: conditional use of gettext

[Vincent Torri]

On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Eric Blake wrote:

> On 06/08/2010 04:54 PM, Vincent Torri wrote:
> > Hey
> >
> > in configure.ac, I use
> >
> >
> > m4_ifdef([AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION], [AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.12.1])])
> > m4_ifdef([AM_GNU_GETTEXT],
> >    [
> >     AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])
> >     po_makefile_in=po/Makefile.in
> >     AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_PO], [true])
> >    ],
> >    [
> >     AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_PO], [false])
> >    ])
> >
> > to check conditionnally if gettext m4 macro is installed or not. And it
> > is installed. But autopoint and aclocal are giving the following message:
> >
> > Running autopoint...
> > autopoint: *** Missing version: please specify in configure.ac through a
> > line 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(x.yy.zz)' the gettext version the package
> > is using
> > autopoint: *** Stop.
>
> That would be an autopoint limitation (or even a bug, if it is not
> documented in the gettext pages).  You'll probably have better luck
> asking Bruno, bug-gnu-gettext AT gnu DOT org, since he is the author of
> AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION in the gettext package.

and about the aclocal message ? Wait, automake ML ?

Vincent Torri