Re: fix an error message during configure

[Bruno Haible]

Gavin Smith wrote:
> The "autogen.sh" script at the root of the
> Texinfo repository runs autoreconf under tp/Texinfo/XS.  Now it runs
> autopoint:
> 
> $ autoreconf --force --verbose --install
> autoreconf: export WARNINGS=
> autoreconf: Entering directory '.'
> autoreconf: running: autopoint --force
> Copying file config.rpath
> Copying file gnulib/m4/gettext.m4
> Copying file gnulib/m4/host-cpu-c-abi.m4
> Copying file gnulib/m4/iconv.m4
> Copying file gnulib/m4/lib-ld.m4
> Copying file gnulib/m4/lib-link.m4
> Copying file gnulib/m4/lib-prefix.m4
> ...
> 
> This is due to the use of AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION that has been added to
> tp/Texinfo/XS/configure, which autoreconf scans for.  Some of these
> copied files are downgrades.

Oh, this problem again. The common workaround is to tell autoreconf
not to run 'autopoint' [1]:

diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index 718100fa77..f1d3449aac 100755
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ $chicken eval $cmd "$@" || exit 1
 
 : ${LIBTOOLIZE=libtoolize}
 cmd="(cd tp/Texinfo/XS && ${LIBTOOLIZE} \
- && autoreconf --force --verbose --install)"
+ && AUTOPOINT=true autoreconf --force --verbose --install)"
 echo "  $cmd"
 $chicken eval $cmd || exit 1
 

Bruno

[1] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/gettextize-and-autopoint.html