Re: conditional use of gettext

[Eric Blake]

On 06/08/2010 04:54 PM, Vincent Torri wrote:
> 
> Hey
> 
> in configure.ac, I use
> 
> 
> m4_ifdef([AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION], [AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.12.1])])
> m4_ifdef([AM_GNU_GETTEXT],
>    [
>     AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])
>     po_makefile_in=po/Makefile.in
>     AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_PO], [true])
>    ],
>    [
>     AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_PO], [false])
>    ])
> 
> to check conditionnally if gettext m4 macro is installed or not. And it
> is installed. But autopoint and aclocal are giving the following message:
> 
> Running autopoint...
> autopoint: *** Missing version: please specify in configure.ac through a
> line 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(x.yy.zz)' the gettext version the package
> is using
> autopoint: *** Stop.

That would be an autopoint limitation (or even a bug, if it is not
documented in the gettext pages).  You'll probably have better luck
asking Bruno, bug-gnu-gettext AT gnu DOT org, since he is the author of
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION in the gettext package.

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