libvirt vs. gettext-0.18 [Re: gettext: update to 0.18

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Meyering wrote:

> Bruno Haible wrote:
>> gettext 0.18 will be released in a couple of hours. This patch upgrades the
>> gnulib macros and module.
>>
>> 2010-05-09  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>
>>
>>      Update to GNU gettext 0.18.
>>      * m4/gettext.m4: Update to GNU gettext 0.17.
>>      * m4/intl.m4: Likewise.
>>      * m4/po.m4: Likewise.
>>      * modules/gettext (Files): Add m4/fcntl-o.m4.
>>      (configure.ac): Require gettext infrastructure from version 0.18.
>
> Hi Bruno,
>
> Thanks for the new version of gettext and the update.
> Note that I have updated coreutils to use the latest from gnulib,
> which includes the above.  If you don't have gettext-0.18 installed,
> your next build attempt will fail like this, as documented in
> the gettext manual:
>
>     make[2]: Entering directory `/w/cu/po'
>     *** error: gettext infrastructure mismatch: using a Makefile.in.in from 
> gettext version 0.17 but the autoconf macros are from gettext version 0.18
>
> Not surprisingly, installing gettext-0.18 and regenerating po/Makefile.in.in
> solves the problem.

I've just realized that making all libvirt developers install
gettext-0.18 will not be an option, so libvirt will have to
be careful, somehow, not to pull in this new requirement.
libvirt currently requires only gettext-0.14.1.