Re: Serial number formats

[Bruno Haible]

Hello Colin,

> I'm using both gettext and gnulib. In order to avoid confusing file
> conflicts, I tell gettext to install into m4/ and gnulib to install into
> gnulib/m4/, and rely on aclocal's documented serial number handling to
> sort it out. I use '-I m4 -I gnulib/m4' in ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS since
> autopoint installs into the first -I directory in ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS.

The recommended way to solve this conflict is documented in the gnulib manual:
  
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/gettextize-and-autopoint.html>

I'm feeling that letting the user put different versions of gettext.m4,
lock.m4, etc. into his working tree and then relying on 'aclocal' to sort
it out is too risky. For example, the user may omit a -I option in some
particular subdirectory; then 'aclocal' may choose the older version without
complaining. It is better if the user has only one version of gettext.m4
in his working tree.

Bruno