Re: [Bug-gnulib] gnulib-tool vs autopoint

[Paul Eggert]

"Gary V.Vaughan" <address@hidden> writes:

> What to do?

In the short run, you can do something like what "tar" does in its
bootstrap script
<http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/tar/tar/bootstrap?rev=HEAD>.

It uses external gettext so it removes the following m4 files:

  codeset.m4
  intdiv0.m4
  inttypes-pri.m4
  isc-posix.m4
  lcmessage.m4

For each of the following files FOO.m4, it rename them to FOO_gl.m4
before running autopoint.  Assuming that you bootstrap with LC_ALL=C
(which is wise, and which is what tar does), they'll sort after the
FOO files and will override the obsolete gettext versions:

  gettext.m4
  glibc21.m4
  intmax.m4
  inttypes_h.m4
  lib-ld.m4
  lib-prefix.m4
  longlong.m4
  po.m4
  stdint_h.m4
  uintmax_t.m4
  ulonglong.m4
  xsize.m4

You may have to tweak this list a bit: I may have missed some duplicates.


> Any thoughts on how to make future revisions of gettext and gnulib
> cooperate?

Haven't had time really to think about it, unfortunately.