bootstrapping Texinfo with latest gettext

[Karl Berry]

Hi Reiner,

[Bootstrapping texinfo from cvs fails with:]

    | autoreconf: running: autopoint --force
    | cvs [checkout aborted]: no such tag gettext-0_12_1
    ...
    ,----[ rpm -qf /usr/bin/autopoint ]
    | gettext-0.11.5-87

Well, this seems to be the essential problem.  Texinfo needs gettext
0.12.1, and that is what I declared in Texinfo's configure.ac with
AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION.  I don't know what else I'm supposed to do.

Alexandre, Akim, anyone, can you advise?  The Texinfo bootstrap script
simply runs autoreconf --verbose --install --force.

Reiner, it might be that this is just auto*'s way of telling you that
you have to install gettext 0.12.1.  (That is, if you really care about
this. :)

Thanks,
karl


Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 12:58:04 +0200
From: Reiner Steib <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
Subject: Re: @documentencoding, `makeinfo --enable-encoding' and texi2dvi

[Mailed and posted to gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.general]
On Sat, Aug 30 2003, Karl Berry wrote:

>     autoconf apparently isn't new enough to bootstrap CVS HEAD).
>
> I'm just using the latest released version (2.57)?

I have the same version, but I get the following error:

,----[ texinfo$ ./bootstrap ]
| Bootstrapping CVS Texinfo with:
| autoreconf --verbose --install --force
| autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
| autoreconf: running: autopoint --force
| cvs [checkout aborted]: no such tag gettext-0_12_1
| /usr/bin/autopoint: line 260: fatal_error: command not found
| find: tmpwrk9590/archive: No such file or directory
| autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4 --output=aclocal.m4t
| aclocal: configure.ac: 153: macro `AM_NLS' not found in library
| autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
`----

,----[ texinfo$ autoreconf --version ]
| autoreconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.57
`----

,----[ rpm -qf /usr/bin/autopoint ]
| gettext-0.11.5-87
`----

,----[ sed -ne '251,263p' /usr/bin/autopoint ]
| gzip -d -c < "$gettext_dir/archive.tar.gz" | (cd "$cvs_dir" && tar xf -)
| 
| cd "$work_dir"
| cvsver=gettext-`echo "$ver" | sed -e 's/\./_/g'`
| (cvs checkout -r"$cvsver" archive > /dev/null) 2>&1 | grep -v '^cvs checkout: 
Updating'
| find archive -name CVS -type d -print | xargs rm -rf
| if test `find archive -type f -print | wc -l` = 0; then
|   cd ..
|   rm -rf "$cvs_dir" "$work_dir"
|   fatal_error "infrastructure files for version $ver not found; this is 
autopoint from GNU $package $version"
| fi
| cd ..
| 
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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