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Re: Test failures in coreutils-5.3.0 on cygwin


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: Test failures in coreutils-5.3.0 on cygwin
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:46:59 +0100
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Eric Blake wrote:
> Actually, the tarball includes AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(0.13.1), the latest
> version of autopoint is 0.14.1, but some of the gettext .m4 files are
> newer than the 0.14.1 version.  To get a good reconf, I had to use
> `AUTOPOINT=true autoreconf -fiv', skipping autopoint, because autopoint
> insisted on pulling in older .m4 files which then broke autoconf.

Yes. Jim Meyering changed glibc21.m4 in coreutils on 2004-04-18. The
consequence is that autopoint doesn't work any more for coreutils.

> Bruno - it may be time for a new gettext/autopoint release

Yes, I agree.

> with the
> smarts to not replace .m4 scripts if the replacement would reduce the
> serial number

That's a too flaky heuristic. If a package maintainer has modified some
of the .m4 files that gettext uses, there's no way an automated tool could
upgrade other m4 files while guaranteeing its proper functioning. Refusing
to modify some m4 files, while modifying others, could well lead to worse
problems than before.

> Also, I couldn't find any gettext mailing list archives on
> the net, to see if this problem has been reported before.

The mailing list is archived as part of the bug-gnu-utils archive. Since
Google "possibly undefined macro: gl_GLIBC21" doesn't reveal any hits,
this problem has not been reported before.

Bruno





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