[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [bug-gettext] bootstrapping coreutils: autopoint from gettext 0.18.3
From: |
Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
Re: [bug-gettext] bootstrapping coreutils: autopoint from gettext 0.18.3.1 fails |
Date: |
Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:45:02 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130110 Thunderbird/17.0.2 |
On 11/19/2013 07:20 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 11/19/2013 04:41 AM, Daiki Ueno wrote:
>> Bernhard Voelker <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> ./bootstrap: autopoint --force
>>> sh: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
>>> /usr/bin/m4:configure.ac:444: cannot open `m4/cu-progs.m4': \
>>> No such file or directory
>>> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> So m4 seems to be used earlier in the process,
>>> to parse the AN_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION from configure.ac,
>>> before we have things setup for m4.
>>
>> Thanks for the report. It looks like another oversight in the tracing
>> code in autopoint. Attaching a patch.
>
> Thanks, now autopoint works again, yet outputting the diagnostics:
>
> ./bootstrap: autopoint --force
> sh: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
> sh: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
> sh: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
> sh: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
> sh: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
> sh: build-aux/git-version-gen: No such file or directory
>
> because adding the redirection 2>/dev/null was (deliberately?) reverted:
>
>>> Bug
>>> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40083
>>> seems to be related, but the fix was to just discard stderr.
>>
>> Yeah, maybe we should consider borrowing the tracing code from libtool.
>> That should be more reliable and avoid duplicate effort like this.
Any update on this.
I don't see the above patch upstream.
We're about to release a new coreutils release and I'd like
to be using the latest version of all tools if possible.
thanks,
Pádraig.
- Re: [bug-gettext] bootstrapping coreutils: autopoint from gettext 0.18.3.1 fails,
Pádraig Brady <=