Re: VPATH distcheck build fails

[Tim Rühsen]

On 04.05.19 18:13, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Tim Rühsen wrote:
>> Both, 'po/Makevars' and 'po/Makevars.template' are overwritten by
>> './bootstrap' (the gnulib bootstrap) (adding to git doesn't matter).
> 
> po/Makevars is meant to contain *package-specific* customizations
> of the gettext integration.
> 
> If 'bootstrap' overwrites it, surely it has a way to override this
> behaviour (in bootstrap.conf)?

Nothing documented found. After reading some code, it seems po/Makevars
is left alone when removing AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.17]) from
configure.ac. Good, but now I am back at the original reported error :-(

The wget.po created in the vpath build still contains just 'wget'
instead of 'GNU Wget' due to

        if LC_ALL=C grep 'GNU @PACKAGE@' $(top_srcdir)/* 2>/dev/null |
grep -v 'libtool:' >/dev/null; then \
          package_gnu='GNU '; \
        else \
          package_gnu=''; \
        fi; \

That is, package_gnu is empty due to not finding 'GNU wget' in the main
project/tarball dir.

Of course I could just generate a file with such a signature, but it
feels like a hack. And I wonder how other GNU projects do it. GNU Wget2
has the same issue. GNU Libidn2 names itself just 'libidn2' everywhere -
so the 'cmp' works (by random).

Thank you for your patience and time, Bruno.

Regards, Tim

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