[bug-gnulib] Re: gettext sync from source?

[Karl Berry]

    AUTOPOINT=true autoreconf --force --install

gnulib files are newer than autoreconf files.  Therefore --force should
not be used.

I recall having this exact problem, and for some reason thinking I
needed --force.  It came up in a discussion with Alexandre (Duret-Lutz)
and he said the above (don't use --force).  I haven't gotten back to it
since.

For Texinfo's bootstrap script, I'm currently doing this:
cmd="$ACLOCAL -I m4 && $AUTOHEADER && $AUTOMAKE && $AUTOCONF"

Alexandre says it would be better to use autoreconf instead, which I
agree with in principle, but ...

In general, the relationship between gnulib and auto* is not exactly
worked out yet, so any ideas/improvements are all to the good.

karl