Re: gettext

[Sebastian Dransfeld]

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Bruno Haible wrote:

> Sebastian Dransfeld writes:
>
> > I'm using Mandrake cooker (devel version) with gettext 0.11.2
> >
> > Two issues:
> >
> > In po/Makefile.in.in $top_builddir is used but never set.
> >
> > $top_builddir = @top_builddir@
> >
> > fixes this.
>
> Hi,
>
> The variable top_builddir should be defined in po/Makevars, not in
> po/Makefile.in.in. How come it is not defined there, if you read the
> documentation of gettext-0.11.2 and/or used gettextize 0.11.2?

Haven't read the documentation well. Sorry about that. Only looked at the
files included in the Mandrake RPMS, and po/Makevars isn't there. So it's
a Mandrake error.

>
> > gettexize adds this to the ChangeLog, why not fix configure.ac too?
> >
> > 2002-06-29  gettextize  <address@hidden>
> >
> >         * Makefile.am (SUBDIRS): Add m4.
> >         (ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS): New variable.
> >         * configure.in (AC_OUTPUT): Add intl/Makefile, m4/Makefile.
>
> You mean, you have both a configure.in and a configure.ac file, and
> gettextize modified only one of them? Which of the two do you use to
> generate the 'configure' script, and what's the purpose of the other
> one?

configure.ac is the new name which autoconf > 2.5 prefers.

Sebastian