Re: Testsuite of libidn 1.20 fails in gnulib

[Simon Josefsson]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Simon,
>
> * Simon Josefsson wrote on Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 12:22:56PM CET:
>> The reason an older longlong.m4 ends up in the *.tar.gz archive is
>> proabably that autoreconf --install (gettextize) pulls in an old
>> longlong.m4:
>> 
>> test -f ./configure || autoreconf --install
>> ...
>> Copying file m4/longlong.m4
>
>> What's a good way to avoid having 'autoreconf --install' copy these old
>> files?
>
> Does this work?
>   AUTOPOINT=true autoreconf --install

The gnulib manual recomend against that so I didn't consider it:

   Avoiding to use `gettextize' (manually, as package maintainer) or
   `autopoint' (as part of a script like `autoreconf' or `autogen.sh')
   is not the solution: These programs also import the infrastructure in
   the `po/' and optionally in the `intl/' directory.

Trying it, autoreconf (automake) complains about missing ABOUT-NLS:

configure.ac:55: required file `./ABOUT-NLS' not found

I don't see that file in gnulib.  So it doesn't seem to work.

/Simon