Re: GNU gettext 0.10.40 does not repect AM_CONFIG_HEADER

[Bruno Haible]

Roger Leigh writes:
> If I put
> 
> AM_CONFIG_HEADER(include/config.h)
> 
> in configure.ac, gettext will not honour this in intl/Makefile.am.  It
> assumes that config.h will be in the root of the source tree.
> 
> I'm not sure how best to fix this.

You can either create a subdirectory containing nothing but a
config.h.in, Makefile.am, intl/ and po/, and a trivial configure.in.

Or use AM_GNU_GETTEXT with the 'external' option (requires
gettext-0.11.2 instead of 0.10.40).

> I AC_SUBST(INCLUDES) in my
> configure.ac and this is automatically used by automake in my
> Makefiles.  gettext won't use that though.  Possibly gettextize could
> check this and modify intl/Makefile.am accordingly?

That's too hairy. It would be best if the intl/ subdirectory would use
its own separate config.h.in, but unfortunately this doesn't work with
autoconf older than 2.50.

Bruno