Re: [bug-gawk] Placating automake and gettext in gawk

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi.

Thanks for the reply.

> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 08:49:36 +0300
> From: LRN <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [bug-gawk] Placating automake and gettext in gawk
>
> On 15.01.2015 7:06, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> >> Gawk can't be autoreconfed, but that is fixable. The patch is attached.
> > 
> > I'm just wondering, why do you need to autoreconf gawk?  In general,
> > the only one who should be doing that is me. :-)
> 
> The reason why i need to autoreconf is that autoreconf replaces bundled
> devfiles (config.guess, for example) with the local ones, which have been
> altered as necessary. While patching these changes in directly is possible,
> this results in massive patches that are difficult to maintain. Autoreconfing
> is cleaner.

OK.

> The reason why you are not running into problems could be explained by me 
> using
> newer version of autotools. I'm reconfiguring with autoreconf-2.69.

I have been using autoconf 2.69, including autoreconf 2.69, for some
time. I don't have bleeding edge other tools, but they're fairly recent.

I will be moving to the latest released tools soon (automake, gettext,
libtool). If I see a need for your patch, I'll apply it.

Thanks,

Arnold