Re: building guile from CVS

[Bruno Haible]

Kevin Ryde wrote:
> > 5) Since AM_GNU_GETTEXT is used in configure.in, a config.rpath is
> > needed. autoreconf does not add it. 'autopoint' would add it, but is not
> > invoked from autoreconf.
>
> Ah, yep.  A gettextize is definitely now needed in autogen.sh.

No no no. gettextize is not suitable for running from within autogen.sh;
this is explained in the GNU gettext manual. You need autopoint instead.

> autoreconf won't run that.

Actually, autoreconf will do this if you add a AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION
declaration in configure.in. But before doing that, run gettextize
once and _just_once_; then you put the AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION line into
configure.in, with a version number that matches the one of gettextize
that you ran.

> > 6) "make" fails in the doc directory because version.texi doesn't exist.
> >    Kevin Rude says that it should be fixed by
> >    "configure --enable-maintainer-mode". But it would be better if
> >    autogen.sh would solve this.
>
> I'm not sure autogen.sh should get involved in that.

autogen.sh is preferrable here because the creation of a version.texi is a
once-only thing. It's not needed in further runs. And not everyone using
a CVS snapshot is a maintainer.

Bruno